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An $88 million satellite backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos is lost in space. MethaneSAT, designed to sniff out sources of ...
NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
Admire our galaxy’s dramatic galactic core—a sparkly bulge of stars and gas—while summer’s short ‘Milky Way season’ lasts ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
They are some of the most intensely studied species on Earth, and yet there is no comprehensive molecular phylogenetic hypothesis of primate evolutionary history that summarizes the pattern and timing ...
Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...
The driving force behind this volcanic activity is believed to be the “Iceland Plume”—a deep, hot column of molten rock that ...
Underneath our feet, deep down below the Earth’s crust and its other layers lies the core, or where the planet’s magnetic fields are generated. However, experts now say it’s changing and there might ...
Scientists discover hidden "ghost plume" beneath Oman using earthquake data, revealing Earth's secret heat pathways.
Credit: Shutterstock Mysterious seismic signals from massive North Atlantic storms are rippling through Earth’s core and surfacing in remote Australia. Scientists from the Australian National ...