On Jan. 31, 1958, Explorer 1 became the first satellite launched by the United States. Its primary science instrument, a cosmic ray detector, was designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth ...
In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...
The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...
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This is how vast our solar system actually is
The Solar System is far larger than the neat diagrams found in textbooks. Beyond the planets lies a vast region of icy debris ...
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Astronomers baffled by discovery of a bizarre 'inside out' solar system
A team of astronomers has identified a four-planet system orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 1903 that defies conventional expectations about how planets arrange themselves around their host stars. The ...
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