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Apophis, a massive asteroid, will safely skim past Earth in 2029, visible to billions. The Ramses mission by Esa and JAXA ...

As the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS sweeps through the inner solar system, it has become a magnet for both scientific ...

FLAMINGO simulation maps the universe but reveals a puzzling mismatch: galaxies cluster less than theory predicts.

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NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

Off the coast of Japan, one region of the ocean has been rising by nearly an inch every year, right next to another where it ...

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From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Astronomers have identified a massive cloud of water vapor surrounding a distant quasar, marking the largest single reservoir ...

A few days before the ski season is supposed to start, the humble, affordable ski area in Maine is showing off a brand new ...