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Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

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Andrews’s article notes that the cause of the observed acceleration of some items passing through our solar system is unclear ...

Colors of pink, purple and green moved across the night sky in Colorado on Sunday night, leaving some residents with the ...

A magnetic anomaly twice Florida’s size is drifting toward America—disrupting satellites, weakening Earth’s shield, and ...

If strong enough, solar storms could wipe out our internet infrastructure. They disrupt aviation signals and, for example, ...

“After driving an electric vehicle for several months as a rideshare driver, I’ve lost a lot of leg hair!” This is one of the most common comments in discussions about the “radiation and health” ...

Galileo saw it first, but this time astronomers had a better view of what is going on with the sun and found a reason why ...

In the field of space research, the distance between an idea and reality can sometimes be as far away as the moon, and at other times as close as a star. One bold idea that has long been cherished by ...

The ground-shaking that an earthquake generates is only a fraction of the total energy that a quake releases. A quake can ...

A study reveals stronger acidity in PFAS, helping explain why the "forever chemicals" spread through rivers, ground, and ...