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Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why, despite believing life likely exists elsewhere, he's still waiting for real proof.
Engineers are developing robotic missions capable of extracting precious metals and water from asteroids orbiting near Earth.
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...
New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...
From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...
Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...
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