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

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

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

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 ...

Learn about a faraway cosmic feature that looks like a cat's tail made of "fluffy" dust grains that may have scattered after ...

Poverty, hunger, and insecure land rights could limit efforts to plant new forests and remove carbon from the atmosphere, a ...

Don’t blink, or you might just miss Earth’s newest natural satellite. Astronomers have officially confirmed that a tiny, near ...

(Kevin Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) Mars has undergone some monumental PR shifts over the past few centuries. Once thought to be ...

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