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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A research team led by Dr. Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute, in collaboration with the Characterizing Atmospheric ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

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Dale Jamieson highlights many of the problems we face—environmental, human, and nonhuman alike—and offers workable solutions ...

As the engineer-in-charge at the observatory, Angchuk aspires to create a full 24-hour time-lapse seamlessly depicting the ...

When meteorites fall to Earth, they are heated in the atmosphere and contaminated by the planet’s molecules ... carbon-rich molecules such as methanal (formaldehyde) — a simple compound that was found ...

How do animals raise their young? Some don't care for their offspring at all, and some families all pitch in.