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Special offer: Complimentary Access to PopSci+ for a limited time » Purbita Saha (she/her) is the Senior Deputy Editor at Popular Science. She leads the magazine’s science desk and internship program ...

This week, SpaceX attempted the first uncrewed orbital test flight of its massive Super Heavy rocket topped with an experimental crew capsule known as Starship. After one aborted launch earlier in the ...

New research of Arrokoth shows that it formed from a cloud in a solar nebula. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Roman Tkachenko This week, ...

Not every owl is a night owl. Of the 200-plus owl species that fly the world today, the vast majority are nocturnal or crepuscular and hunt at dusk, night, or dawn. But a select few ...