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Kepler Space Telescope, a mission which was designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy, retired in 2018, but its ...

As global officials confirm that 2025 was Earth's third-hottest year on record, a new poll shows Americans are sharply ...

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Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

A Pew Research poll shows partisan split over U.S. scientific leadership, with Democrats far more concerned about losing ...

Earth Science Week 2025, an annual worldwide celebration of the geosciences led by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI), is underway from October 12–18, 2025, with the theme “Energy Resources for ...

Differences in the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Moon will make July 9, July 22 and August 5 unusually short. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also ...

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