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If you examine our solar system’s giant planets, you’ll notice right away that they’ve all got moons—a lot of moons. While ...

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Your weight doesn't change because of gravity but because the floor pushes back. Physicists explain why elevators briefly make you feel heavier or lighter.

Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Planets are born, and they can also "die." So what's the lifespan of a typical planet?

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

With the Earth moving between the moon and the sun, its giant shadow changing the moon's reflected glow from ivory to a reddish color.

There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the "Hubble Tension" in cosmology. This feature describes how one of the most important variables in cosmology, the expansion of the universe, takes on ...

We are only at the beginning of climate destabilization, in which winter weather grows more erratic and extreme.

A new 30-year analysis reveals that melting land ice is now the main force behind rising global sea levels. Researchers ...