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A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

March was once the first month of the year for ancient people who lived in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere. Our forebears widely regarded this month as a time for new beginnings after the dark ...

While it is already dimming after a close encounter with the sun, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) – also called the Great Comet of ...

While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...

The colorful northern lights may reveal themselves to a wide swath of Americans Friday night due to an impending solar storm forecast to reach Earth.

The colorful northern lights may reveal themselves to South Dakotans Friday night due to an impending solar storm forecast to reach Earth.

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