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A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth

EARTH
Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in over a...

Is the moon a chunk ejected from Earth? Study sheds light on moon formation, origin of water on Earth

ASTRONOMY
A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered another piece in the...

Exploring an alternate solar system: Research maps impact of ‘super-Earth’

EARTH
Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she...

NASA proposes cheaper, quicker way to get Mars rocks and soil to Earth

ASTRONOMY
NASA is pitching a cheaper and quicker way of getting rocks and soil back from Mars, after seeing its original plan swell to $11...

Sunken worlds under the Pacific? High-res models reveal workings of Earth’s mantle

EARTH
Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently than previously assumed. This indicates...

2024 was Earth’s hottest year, continuing the global warming trend

EARTH
Earth reached its warmest year on record in 2024, according to data from the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, Europe's leading environmental monitoring...

Scientists have identified an estimated 10% of all species on Earth. Here’s what they found in 2024

EARTH
A toothy toadstool. A vegetarian piranha with a distinctive mark. And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean shallows. These wild wonders were among...

From Earth to alien worlds: Exploring the fundamental limits to life

EARTH
Extraterrestrial and artificial life have long captivated the human mind. Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life...

How to find a comet before it hits Earth

EARTH
How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn't passed our planet in the last 200 years or...

Lessons from Earth’s hottest epoch in the last 65 million years: How global warming could shrink the tropics’ rain belt

EARTH
Earth's tropical rain belt, responsible for monsoons that sustain billions of people and vibrant ecosystems, has long been a reliable feature of the planet's...

New evidence of organic material identified on Ceres, the inner solar system’s most water-rich object after Earth

ASTRONOMY
Six years ago, NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest bodies...

Massive asteroid impacts did not change Earth’s climate in the long term, research finds

ASTRONOMY
Two massive asteroids hit Earth around 35.65 million years ago, but did not lead to any lasting changes in the Earth's climate, according to...
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