NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

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While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, DARPA made a highly unusual ...

The sounding rockets released vapor tracers and pressure sensors at different altitudes across central and northern Alaska ...

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Where does all that space junk go? And what does climate change have to do with it? The answers are on this episode of The ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of ...

A surprising new study suggests the intense radiation from active galactic nuclei from a black hole might support life ...

Right after launching, a bunch of satellites heading to join the megaconstellation looks like a string of moving stars going ...

Using ALMA, astronomers discovered that Proxima Centauri produces frequent, high-energy millimeter-wavelength flares that ...