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Such a system could run circles around the first human-made object to reach the Venusian regolith, Venera 7.A Space Age kid, Mitchell grew up seeing low-quality images from the Venera program “that

TOKYO—Japan’s space agency said it recovered far more black dirt than it was targeting from the asteroid Ryugu, confirming the success of its Hayabusa2 mission nine days after it delivered its pa

Twitter users mocked Ivanka Trump on Tuesday as a “fake scientist” after she claimed current COVID-19 lockdowns “are not grounded in science.“These blanket lockdowns are not grounded in scien

“What’s not legitimate is to overrule science,” he said.Vought and Kellyanne Conway, the former White House adviser, on choirs and communion in faith communities, or suggestions from Ivanka Trum

By David GrimmDec.For those of you looking for a pandemic break, here are some of our most popular non–COVID-19 stories of the year, along with some personal favorites—almost all of them stories w

While Venus is similar to Earth in size, mass, and rocky composition, its surface temperatures reach 900 °F, and its atmosphere is suffused with thick clouds of sulfuric acid billions of times more a

Somehow, it’s the end of December.For us on The Verge’s science desk (and so many others), it’s been a year we want to both lock away forever and also never forget.As 2020 wound down, we decided

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich penned an op-ed this week in The Washington Times saying he won’t accept President-elect Joe Biden as president, packing the essay with baseless claims of elect

The US$100m (£70m) Breakthrough Listen Initiative, founded by Russian billionaire, technology, and science investor Yuri Milner and his wife Julia, has identified a mysterious radio signal that seem

By Elizabeth PennisiJan.In a new study, researchers took high-speed videos of two black woodpeckers (Dryocopus martius) pecking away at hardwood trunks in zoos and analyzed them frame by frame to see