It kills a great white killer whale in less than two minutes and feeds on its liver

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Fake cancer research and claims of scientific fraud have hit the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Last summer, I covered the saga of Francesca Gino of Harvard Business School, who was blatantly…

NASA's Planetary Radar images the asteroid as it approaches Earth

The day before asteroid 2008 OS7 approached Earth on February 2, this series of images was…

Space debris is a big problem, but we can solve it

Humans fill the space surrounding Earth with garbage. Most of this waste comes from abandoned satellites,…

SpaceX postpones NASA's Crew-8 launch to March 2 due to bad weather

SpaceX has postponed the launch of NASA's first astronaut of 2024 to no later than Saturday…

Nova explosion, the “new” star in the Northern Crown

A star system 3,000 light-years away, known as T Coronae Borealis, is expected to become visible…

The potentially habitable exoplanet Trappist-1 has been discovered destroying its atmosphere

Scientists have discovered that a potentially habitable planet has had its atmosphere stripped away, a process…

Maybe, just maybe, the Boeing Starliner will fly astronauts this spring

Zoom in / Boeing's Starliner crew module was mated for upcoming crew flight testing with a…

Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' began melting in mid-20th century: study

The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica — often known as the “Doomsday Glacier” because of the…

SpaceX launches a rocket and capsule to launch Crew-8 astronauts (photos)

SpaceX's next astronaut launch is just around the corner. The company just launched the Falcon 9…