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If you watch any of the footage from West Antarctica this season, the first thing you notice is how ridiculously…
The Arabian Peninsula and the sky have always had an unusual relationship. People here looked up because they had to,…
Uranus seemed to be the planet that astronomers courteously overlooked for the majority of my life. After Voyager 2 passed…
Beyond Neptune, a tiny, frozen body is floating in the darkness and has, in defiance of all logic, developed an…
The fact that scientists can extract a hitherto unidentified animal from one of the least visited locations on Earth—six and…
For the majority of human history, the typical response to the question “can we predict earthquakes” has been a quiet,…
If the researchers are correct, a tiny bright patch close to a lunar crater’s edge has been sitting quietly in…
In the same way that meteorologists monitor hurricane swells, a cabinet of forecasters in Boulder, Colorado, keeps an eye on…
It is difficult to ignore how frequently the climate debate returns to the same unsolvable question: what will happen if…
There is no forgiveness on the moon. Surface temperatures fluctuated by hundreds of degrees, micrometeoroids and cosmic radiation were constantly…