Europe's Vega C rocket launched for the sixth time ever today (Dec. 1), sending South Korea's powerful KOMPSAT-7 ...

Yttrium plays a critical role in everything from aircraft engines to semiconductors. China controls the vast majority of the ...

In the late 1800s, the French naturalist Camille Viguier proposed an idea that would be dismissed and forgotten for more than ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big rises in sea temperatures ...

The discovery and swift monitoring of asteroid 2024 YR4 earlier this year represented Earth's first real-life planetary ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...

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It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

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China's first crewed spacecraft to be ruled unfit to fly in mid-mission will be sent back to Earth for experts to assess the ...