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An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

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Get past the fake science, and the Taurid meteor shower foreshadows what could, one day, pose a troubling scenario.

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The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

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Claudia Steffensen and her husband were hiking in the northern Italian Alps when they discovered reptile and amphibian footprints imprinted on a gray rock. 'It ...

How much land, water, and other resources does our lifestyle require? And how can we adapt this lifestyle to stay within the limits of what the Earth can give? A new article tackles these questions.

Some of the first human beings to arrive in Tasmania, over 41,000 years ago, used fire to shape and manage the landscape, about 2,000 years earlier than previously thought.