Mars’ positioning is what gives the lighter planet such a strong pull. “The closer it is to the sun, the more a planet ...

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Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...

Floridians may now be able to spot the towering Space Launch System rocket, which will propel four astronauts on a journey ...

Far below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered a geological system that reshapes how you may ...

Let’s say it’s 2036, and scientists are working on a new class of drugs. Today, for instance, pharmaceutical companies use ...

What is “down” in the vastness of space? Scientists reveal how gravity, cosmic planes, and perspective redefine direction, ...

The European Space Agency has quietly added a major piece to its global space communications network with the inauguration of ...

While the US is attempting to come up with CLT, researchers from the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing and the ...

Near-weightless conditions can mutate genes and alter the physical structures of bacteria and phages, disrupting their normal ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...