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Scientists are working on a way to prevent this from happening by playing a sort of interplanetary game of pool. The idea is to use the kinetic energy of a spacecraft to deflect potential earthbound asteroids.

The telescope uses a camera with filters that can make a color map out of infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye.

Prejudice can be one of the motivating factors behind small and large hateful acts like this year's mass shooting targeting Black people in a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store. Do people learn prejudice or are they born with it? Could it be a combination of both?

NASA's $10 billion new telescope showed the world something remarkable today: an image of some of the first galaxies to form in the universe.

June's full moon gets its nickname from the strawberry harvesting season in the Northeastern U.S. It also happens to be at its closest distance to Earth in its orbit, which makes it a supermoon.

From lemons to ham, salt is a handy food preservative. But researchers studying some really old salt crystals found them preserving something else — evidence of life.

That's up from 143 incidents in a report issued in 2021. Officials partly credited reducing stigma around the issue for the new reports, many of which are older and went unmentioned at the time.

For the first time, we’re able to see what a black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy looks like, thanks in part to Alex Tetarenko, an astrophysics researcher with Texas Tech University who contributed to the discovery.

These so-called exoplanets include rocky worlds similar in size to Earth, gas giants larger than Jupiter and even"'mini-Neptunes."

It's a sibling of the first omicron variant that swept the world. Is it more contagious? Does it cause severe disease? Will it keep current omicron surges going? Researchers are looking for answers.