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Deadly storms across Italy have brought Venice face-to-face with one of the city’s worst floods in at least a decade — leaving residents, store owners, and tourists alike fending off knee-high flood water.  New photos […]

[embedded content] Most of us will never get to space, but at least we have videos that show us what it’s like to touch the void. New footage from the International Space Station taken in […]

Earth, our ocean-dominated world, stores away a vast majority of the planet’s accumulating heat in the seas.  In fact, over 90 percent of the planet’s rising warmth — specifically trapped by human-created greenhouse gas emissions […]

Some 250 miles above Earth, the Halloween spirit is in impressive, weightless form. After spending 147 days in space, the three crewmembers currently aboard the International Space Station decided to have a little Halloween fun, […]

Disclosure Every product here is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our work. Palau’s iconic Rock Islands, seen from the air. Image: […]

The Russian space agency Roscosmos released footage of the nearly-disastrous rocket launch that imperiled the lives of NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin on October 11. While the video is dramatic, it […]

Nuclear energy in the United States is at an impasse. American reliance on nuclear power has steadily increased from 11 percent to 30 percent of the country’s electrical output since the 1970s. However, three decades […]

Drastic flooding in Venice, Italy continues. Image: Giacomo Cosua/NurPhoto via Getty Images By Nicole Gallucci2018-10-31 16:20:41 UTC Venice is currently experiencing the worst flooding it’s seen in a decade, but one restaurant refuses to let […]

Twenty-one children, adolescents, and young adults — all between the ages of 11 and 21 — were set to face off against the United States in an Oregon courthouse on Oct. 29.  But instead, the […]

After nine years of service, half a million stars surveyed, and thousands of planets discovered around those stars, NASA’s astonishingly successful Kepler space telescope is finally taking a well-earned rest. Out of fuel but in […]