The smaller of the pair was spotted only this month and could be visible with binoculars as it passes by…
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Computer simulations suggest that a collision with another planetary object early in Earth’s history may have provided the heat to…
During the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, his color photograph of an emerging Earth, known as “Earthrise,” became an icon and…
The event will be active when the moon is just a sliver in the sky, but it is less easy…
The moon will drift far enough from Earth that it no longer fully obstructs the sun. But predicting when this…
Kiyan Williams, for their Whitney Biennial commission, recreated the column-lined facade from soil. Viewers can watch as it crumbles, sprouts…
A team of scientists thinks the planet may have been thrust into its longest ice age because less gas leaked…
Graphic artists have been helping call attention to climate change for decades, and a new exhibition charts the evolution of…
A new study suggests that explosive events in space have the potential to temporarily switch off the natural shield that…
A new study makes the case that the solar system’s hellish second planet once may have had plate tectonics that…