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The National Centers for Environmental Information and British Geological Survey have released an updated version of the ...

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The transition in and out of the Late Palaeozoic ice age was one of the biggest climate transitions in Earth’s history, a ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have calculated a new system for measuring lunar time. While not needed ...

January's full Wolf Moon will make Mars vanish, but it's only temporary. Watch for the red planet's disappearing act from the ...

NASA’s LEXI will study Earth’s magnetosphere from the lunar surface, uncovering how it responds to solar winds and cosmic ...

Laundry detergent sheets have grown more popular recently, but are they actually effective? We tested them out to see.

Pluto's big moon Charon may have a different origin story than scientists suspected. New research suggests the two bodies ...

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