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We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view ...

Lakes of liquid methane on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, could offer exhilarating—and terrifying—opportunities for ...

Two scientists explored the idea that there was another civilizaton before humans, which harnessed energy and wiped itself ...

If you’re one of our European readers, then August is potentially a particularly big month. A full solar eclipse will sweep ...

That stable period may now be at an end. Climate change began in the atmosphere, where greenhouse gases accumulate, trapping ...

(fotograzia/Moment/Getty Images) In the beginning, there was moosh. At the dawn of the Solar System, young Earth was little ...

When the Trump administration began its bombing of Iran on Feb. 28, San Francisco-headquartered Planet soon made its own ...

This discovery marks a major milestone in the search for life on worlds beyond our solar system. A faint stream of helium ...

Astronomers caught helium escaping the habitable-zone world LHS 1140 b — a signal that strengthens the case for the planet's ...

Google Earth now uses Nano Banana 2 to generate imagined cities and historical scenes, but accuracy and sharing restrictions ...