It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

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Cracks along a giant Martian volcano, possibly above a magma chamber, might be spewing magmatic gases into the atmosphere, ...

Archived observations appear to show a moving object in the far-distant outer solar system, but its reality is unclear ...

University of Cambridge astronomers have ruled out a longstanding theory.

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It’s called the Great Unconformity, and it’s a gap in the geologic record,” says Nicolas Flament, a geoscientist at the ...

The tiny space rock, estimated to be just 3 to 6 feet across, has been temporarily captured by Earth’s gravity and is ...

For 150 years, nobody has known what erased those missing chapters. In new research published in Nature, we finally provide ...

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Earth has gained a second tiny moon after a small space rock was captured by our planet's gravity. The object, known as 2026 ...

A salt-loving Earth microbe showed growth after 160 days in warm brine under low pressure and an oxygen-free, carbon ...