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A stunning Earthset image from Artemis II recalls Apollo 8's Earthrise, marking humanity's return to deep space and the start of a new era of exploration.
The moon's orientation changes quite dramatically across time and between places, largely due to differences in perspective.
A NASA researcher in planetary sciences explains how he discovered a new meteor shower linked to a disintegrating asteroid.
Science news this week April 11, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
Interview Perry Samson was helping students conduct field experiments on supercell storms in Kansas in 2008 when one suddenly turned into a tornado and dragged him in.
Once a thriving sardine fishing island, today Aoshima is home to roughly 80 cats and just a handful of people who look after the felines with the help of food donations from around Japan.
Amid drought and heat waves, April's national wildfire forecast shows that nearly the entire Western U.S. will face an above-normal risk of wildfires at some point in the next four months.
Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health and recipient of the 2026 Stockholm Water Prize, about "water bankruptcy" and what countries should do to avoid catastrophe.
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A stone slab depicting the Roman emperor Tiberius was found during restoration work at the Karnak temple complex in Luxor.
A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people.
The newfound coin dates to the 1584 founding of a doomed Spanish settlement in southern Chile.
Three orcas from Alaska surfaced in the waters between Washington state and Canada in March, an area where they've never been documented.
The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, igniting deadly conflict between former friends.
Conservationists are celebrating the 105th kākāpō chick to hatch during the 2026 breeding season — the highest number reported since such records began 30 years ago.
A site in southwestern China holds a wide array of strange life-forms that emerged prior to the Cambrian explosion, and it pushes back the origin of complex life by millions of years.
Two researchers snorkeling in a subterranean stream in Texas discovered fossils from the Late Pleistocene epoch, revealing new details about what lived in this ancient ecosystem.
Can the microbes in your gut influence the foods you crave?
Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.
Prion diseases, such as "mad cow," are caused by transmissible proteins that were identified in the 1980s.
A new map of the "maternal-fetal interface" reveals a new type of cell, as well as the types of cells most likely to be affected in conditions like preeclampsia.
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Overly agreeable AI responses to interpersonal issues could mess with human moral perspectives.
INTERVIEW Live Science spoke with Mariah Blake, an investigative journalist and author of the book "They Poisoned The World," about one of the greatest corporate scandals in history.
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