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After arriving in orbit around the moon on Christmas Day, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) moon lander has...

Science News drew over 21 million visitors to our website this year. Here’s a look back at the most-read and...

WITH constant headlines about floods, wildfires and record-breaking temperatures, it isn’t surprising that many people think our current generation will...

The gold that comprises the ring on your ring, the jewelry, and the uranium used as fuel in nuclear power...

Excerpt from the December 22, 1973 issue of Science News Spike the California sea lion, a member of the U.S....

MRI scans of a healthy brain (left) and a brain with amyloid plaque deposits (right), a sign of Alzhiemer’s diseaseMARK...

A Japanese spacecraft just took a huge step toward pulling off the nation's first-ever moon landing.Japan's robotic SLIM moon lander...

While growing up in California in the 1980s, Winifred Frick never saw a condor in the wild. The population of...

Reindeer can multitaskGabriela Wagner Reindeer appear to snooze throughout the day while chewing their cud. This may be an adaptation...

This year saw planetary scientists add a number of exciting new worlds to our growing 5,000+ catalog of exoplanets. Among...