A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

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Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

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In the 2000s, NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) station in deep space around a million miles from Earth made it onto the MPC's Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

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Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

The researchers believe that the ammonia-enriched ice melted ... half billion years of our solar system history that were wiped out by plate tectonics and volcanism and the water cycle here on ...

A few days ago, an asteroid was discovered that will come dangerously close to Earth in eight years' time. The probability of impact is over one percent. An asteroid with a diameter of 10 meters ...