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Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation ...

Ecuador’s vanguard moral-legal compass for nature is perhaps why the Galápagos Islands, an archipelago 900km off the ...

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Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars.

A network of powerful ground-based telescopes captured rare starspot-crossing events on TOI-3884b, revealing cooler patches ...

A new view of Mars showcases a dramatic impact crater on the Red Planet with its debris wings unfurling across the surface ...

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The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Over the past century, we’ve gone from around 2 billion to 8 billion people on the planet. At the same time, fertility rates ...

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age on Apple TV shifts focus from dinosaurs to Pleistocene-era animals, using advanced photogrammetry ...