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Category: News & Media

Scanned: Jun 10, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC · First seen: Jun 10, 2026 · Threat Engines: 0 / 91 · Times Scanned: 1
99 / 100 Trust Score Based on scan findings at the time of analysis
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Screenshot of livescience.com Captured Jun 10, 2026
https://livescience.com
Screenshot of livescience.com
25 years
Very Popular - #2,404 Tranco rank (>10M monthly visitors)
Not listed (91 checked)
✓ Valid (TLS)
Fastly, Inc.
Montreal, Canada
Unknown
Unknown
151.101.2.114
Domain & WHOIS Information
Registrar Domain Name Department
Registered April 4, 2001
Expires April 4, 2027
Name Servers ns-91.awsdns-11.com
DNSSEC Unsigned
Hosting Fastly, Inc.
Reputation & Threat Check 91 security engines checked
File Scan Summary Powered by Quttera Engine
5 files scanned
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www.livescience.com.http-redirect 90 B No threats
uk-script.dotmetrics.net/door.js?d= 61 B No threats
www.livescience.com/amazing-women-in-math-and-science.html 1.6 MB No threats
www.livescience.com/about-live-science 1.4 MB No threats
www.livescience.com/# 3.3 MB No threats
External Links & Domains
577
External Links
All Clean
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Iframes
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114
Referenced Domains
1 Flagged
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Flagged Resources
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view.genial.lyFlagged: Generic Malicious Object
http://livescience.com/item.urlNot flagged
http://livescience.com/membershipNot flagged
http://livescience.com/my-accountNot flagged
http://livescience.com/sponsored_image_urlNot flagged
http://livescience.com/sponsored_link_urlNot flagged
http://space.com/Not flagged
http://www.ipso.co.uk/Not flagged
http://www.open-bks.com/index.htmlNot flagged
https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2018/pr18_041.htmNot flagged
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/decal-canadarm-sally-ride/nasm_A20140308000Not flagged
https://bordeaux.futurecdn.netNot flagged
https://bsky.app/profile/harryjpbaker.bsky.socialNot flagged
https://c.aps.amazon-adsystem.com/apstag.jsNot flagged
https://can-acn.org/brenda-milnerNot flagged
https://cdn.jwplayer.comNot flagged
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view.genial.lyFlagged: Generic Malicious Object
012.34.4.28Not flagged
about.usps.comNot flagged
airandspace.si.eduNot flagged
babel.hathitrust.orgNot flagged
bordeaux.futurecdn.netNot flagged
bsky.appNot flagged
c.aps.amazon-adsystem.comNot flagged
can-acn.orgNot flagged
carleton.caNot flagged
carnegiemnh.orgNot flagged
cdn.jwplayer.comNot flagged
cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.netNot flagged
cdn.privacy-mgmt.comNot flagged
cfmedicine.nlm.nih.govNot flagged
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livescience.com Overview

Description of livescience.com

LiveScience.com appears to be a long-running science news and educational media website focused on topics such as animals, archaeology, health, space, technology, and general scientific discoveries. The page title and visible homepage layout indicate a publication-style site that publishes articles, trending stories, and science reporting for a broad public audience.

Based on the domain name, metadata, and screenshot, the site appears to be operated as a professional digital media property rather than a personal blog or temporary landing page. Its high traffic ranking, mature domain age, and polished editorial presentation are consistent with an established online publisher covering science and research news.

Safety Assessment for livescience.com

The available scan data is broadly reassuring. At the time of this scan, the domain was flagged by 0 out of 91 security engines, and the checked blacklist and threat-database sources did not report active malicious listings. The domain is also very old, has a strong traffic presence, and the visible content matches a legitimate science-news publication rather than a phishing page, fake store, or impersonation site.

One scanner did reference a generic malicious-object label tied to an external domain resource, but this appears to be an isolated heuristic-style finding rather than a confirmed threat on livescience.com itself. There were no flagged files on the scanned site, no flagged external links in the sampled set, and no corroborating detections from other security engines. Based on available data, no threats were detected at the time of this scan.

Technical Description

The site uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate and is hosted through Fastly infrastructure, with DNS served by AWS nameservers. The domain has been registered for roughly 25 years, which is generally consistent with an established web property. The server IP geolocates to Canada in this scan, though CDN-backed sites may serve content from different regions.

DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No major technical security concerns were evident from the provided scan data beyond that minor observation and the isolated low-confidence external-resource heuristic noted elsewhere.

HTTP Redirect Chain
No redirects detected - direct connection to destination
Website Insights
#2,404
Tranco Rank
Very Popular
Visitors >10M/mo
Category: News & Media
Rank History (30 days)
May 4 Jun 9
73 cookies detected
Essential70
Analytics2
Advertising1
Social0
61 1st party cookies
12 3rd party (trackers)
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