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The briefing was a rare coordinated effort to make sure the media reflects the science: Humanity’s planetary house is on fire ...

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Lowell Observatory astronomer Dr. Qicheng Zhang has captured the first ground-based optical images of Comet 3I/ATLAS ...

New experiments reveal jarosite's selective bromine capture under Mars-like conditions, offering a fresh lens to decode the Red Planet's aqueous past ...

A new study published in Planet reveals a Micro-XRD method to quantitatively measure the ancient collision histories of meteorites. Researchers from ...

Orbiting mirrors that can redirect sunlight have moved from science fiction concept to active business plan, promising ...

In northern Egypt, a vast hollow in the desert sits far below sea level, inviting a question that sounds like science fiction ...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together." ...

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