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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 ...

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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 ...

Falling space junk is becoming a real-world hazard, and scientists have found a clever new way to track it using instruments ...

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 ...

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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