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Strauss' “Blue Danube” waltz is heading into space this month to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

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A new study posits that dark streaks originally believed to be signs of water on Mars' surface might not be that at all.

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.

Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet.

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still can’t rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale ...