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The Earth became darker from 2001 to 2024, meaning it reflects less sunlight, a research team reports in the journal ...

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Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the ...

The small chunk of rock could be telling us that many of the moon’s largest impacts happened over 4.25 billion years ago.

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In our own solar system, there are pretty good odds that you could stand on the surface of an asteroid and not even be able ...

The partial solar eclipse was visible to over 16 million people when it darkened the sky over the Pacific on Sept. 21-22 ...

Solar eclipses offer a celestial show. The article details four types: total, annular, partial, and hybrid. A partial solar ...

New observations suggest that the dwarf planet Makemake is surrounded by faintly glowing methane gas. Scientists are unsure ...