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The answer depends on many factors, including the amount of fuel needed, the moon’s orbit and the mission’s objectives.

In a new study, the RSV drug nirsevimab was 93% effective at preventing young children from being hospitalized for the respiratory infection.

The universe is constantly expanding, but how do scientists think about what it’s expanding into?

A small statue of a woman wearing a royal crown may depict Cleopatra VII, an archaeologist claims. Other archaeologists think it is likely someone else.

Engravings and other evidence suggest ancient humans attended religious ceremonies in the cave as early as 37,000 years ago.

A new study claims to have identified 13 proteins associated with either accelerated or decelerated brain aging. However, experts have questioned the practical implications of the findings.

The research details the elaborate process used to manufacture the Nebra Sky Disc during the Bronze Age.

Generative AI and the hype around it has rung in excitement and alarm bells this year. Here’s how to consider climate, energy and AI’s intersection.

The sixth-century burial of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl surprised archaeologists when they discovered a small third-century Roman goblet full of pig fat near her head.

Google’s new 105-qubit ‘Willow’ quantum processor has surpassed a key error-correction threshold first proposed in 1995 — with errors now reducing exponentially as you scale up quantum machines.