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The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

While you may feel robbed of your summer, next year you will enjoy 93 days, 15 hours, and 40 mins of Croc season, or an extra ...

Background The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), active since 2015, is stationed at the first Lagrange point (L1) approximately 1.5 million kilometres from Earth towards the Sun, offering a ...

The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above the surface. Don ...

This week, explore a medieval manuscript, spy an underwater volcano ready to erupt off the US West Coast, encounter T. rex’s ancestor, and more.

The Kosmos-482 spacecraft is extremely unlikely to cause damage. Human-made space junk crashes back to Earth all the time.

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket successfully launched, carrying Katy Perry and five other celebrities on a short flight to space.

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