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Dale Jamieson highlights many of the problems we face—environmental, human, and nonhuman alike—and offers workable solutions ...

American space agency NASA awarded a NIAC grant to ThinkOrbital for a study into building a shipyard in space using ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

A video essay analyzing the editing of the Iguana vs. Snakes scene in Planet Earth 2. Specifically, I look at how the editor ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Experts are tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a 1.2% chance of impacting Earth in 2032. Observations continue to refine ...

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NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday that the chance of the asteroid impacting Earth is slightly more than 1%.

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Explore the debate on climate change causes: human activities vs. natural variability. Discover the latest data, scientific ...