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Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the ...

Something strange is happening beneath southern Africa. A vast underground structure may be slowly disrupting Earth’s ...

NASA proclaimed 2024 to be “Heliophysics Big Year,” and with good reason. Heliophysics is the study of the sun, and 2024 gave ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully detected auroras on Neptune for the first time ever, finishing a job that ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

According to Dr. Schmoll, the Earth's magnetic field has a north and south pole, just like any magnet. The sun does as well.