The latest death data for the U.S. are in, and they paint an optimistic picture: The average American born in 2024 is now ...

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Rocket Lab will try again tonight (Jan. 29) to launch a South Korean disaster-monitoring satellite, and you can watch the ...

An 11th-century monk saw the famous "Halley's comet" first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds. Halley's comet bears the name of the astronomer who famously first described its ...

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The astronauts will fly a “free-return” trajectory, which will send them looping round the Moon in a figure of eight before ...

A growing body of research suggests that everything from the shape of your lungs to how you enunciate your Ts and Ks could make you a flu superspreader.

U.S. life expectancy has hit the highest mark in American history. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday ...