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New James Webb Space Telescope data reveal Pluto's high-altitude haze is a key driver of the climate on the dwarf planet, ...

A new panorama from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter shows Arsia Mons, one of the largest volcanoes on Mars, rising above a thick ...

A metal detectorist in Germany has unearthed an Early Middle Ages hoard that contains 200 artifacts, including a pendant that ...

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Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

A pair of 14,000-year-old "puppies" found melting out of the permafrost in Siberia have undergone genetic testing, proving ...

Symptoms of Werner syndrome, which causes premature aging, can appear in a person's teens and progress quickly in their 20s ...

Space weather experts warn that a "moderate" geomagnetic storm could rock Earth over the weekend, potentially lighting the ...

The Zanj, enslaved people largely from Africa, rebelled at the same time they were ordered to build a massive system of ...

Even though there are 8 billion people on Earth today, a catastrophe could send that number much lower within a few decades.