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Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.

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A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently ...

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Lauren Arkell of Brentwood, NH is on missions team for Blue Ghost, a 6½-foot-tall robotic moon lander lauding aboard a SpaceX ...

Fifty years ago, 20 of the world's brightest people tried to predict life in 2024. They got an awful lot wrong.

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Astronomers have been curious about the makeup of Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, ever since its discovery by ...

In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we check out a campaign to turn Taylor Swift fans into climate ...