A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old explanation for the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native birds, a new study from the U ...

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NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

Ever since the James Webb Space Telescope was launched almost four years ago to the day, the star of space exploration until that time, the Hubble telescope, kind of took a back seat. From time to ...