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Georgia’s state Senate has passed a bill that would cut off public funding for gender affirming care for adults ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...

“In a world that is now so dependent on electricity and electronics, a similar event has the potential to cause widespread disruptions and damage to the electronics aboard Earth-orbiting satellites, ...

and stock illustration of a comet disintegrating (inset). The thermal stress that Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) experienced during its close pass with the sun may have caused it to break apart a week later.

The Whitney Museum's Christine Sun Kim survey is a razor-sharp and thought-provoking meditation on communication and sound.

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our view starting in March. Look up!

Pensioners have until February 26 to change their Sassa gold cards to the new black cards that Postbank will be issuing to its clients soon.

I hope you got a chance to see the moon nuzzled up to Venus on Feb. 1, and perhaps even checked out the pair through binoculars. Now, with the moon gone ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.

The event marked the 75th year of the club's founding as the Florida Women's Press Club at a time when women were not ...

A BELOVED homeware and gift shop is closing all of its stores and has already launched its “biggest sale ever”. Known for ...