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A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...
A TikTok video has refuted a common climate denial argument by showing just how fast global temperatures are rising.
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Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...
Imagine you’re on the moon, digging up lunar regolith. You’re focused on the task at hand when you suddenly slip and fall, right into your pickaxe. Even in the moon’s weaker gravitational field, ...
Global warming is flooding low-lying coastal regions, but it’s drying out the land beyond. The most serious consequences of ...
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Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up ...
For a treadmill runner, the great outdoors is new territory. You have heat, hills, tricky surfaces—and, worst of all, no way ...
The sun will set on Wednesday, April 16 at 8:01 p.m. in Seattle. Throughout the rest of April, we'll continue to gain over ...
Why China's Rare Earth Curbs Could Devastate US Why China's Rare Earth Curbs Could Devastate US Photo Illustration by Newsweek/Getty Images "They are definitely arrows in their quiver of how China ...
Where these elements ended up—trapped in the core, dissolved in the mantle, or lost to space—determines why the Earth looks and functions as it does today. Nitrogen is particularly enigmatic.