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The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

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The US will need to secure critical minerals from non-Chinese sources because the future will be, by necessity, metals ...

Ever wonder how NASA captures stunning images from deep space probes? Interplanetary scientist John Spencer takes us behind ...

E.T. Adventure is going down for refurbishment at Universal Studios Florida from June 9–13, 2025. But with Spielberg involved ...

Astronomers have captured the Sun's corona in astonishing detail, revealing mesmerizing features like coronal rain — all in ...

The largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet - created by the University of St Andrews – has had a major new ...

Research in Nature Communications suggests the contribution of ocean biology to climate regulation is more complex than ...

Terrestrial planets are known to have few or no satellites of their own. For example: Earth has only one satellite, Mars has two, whereas Mercury and Venus have none. There are two types of ...

In 2012, in Turlock, California, 50,000 hens were abandoned in an egg farm. Every one of those trapped birds embodied a ...