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Earth has quietly picked up a new traveling companion, a tiny captured object that astronomers say will loop around our ...

That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...

Published today in New Phytologist, the project brings together more than 40 scientists from 11 countries and seven space ...

Mars, long considered largely static, has revealed a dynamic interior in recent years. NASA’s InSight mission detected ...

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos wants to move industry off Earth to save the planet. Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, wants to move ...

Mould found at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster appears to be feeding off the radiation. Could we use it to shield ...