This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

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The gas giant’s shape and size, previously known only from data collected more than 45 years ago, have been updated at last.

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Standing atop Biosphere 2’s iconic rooftop dressed in the same spacesuit George Clooney wore in the 2013 film “Gravity,” YouTube personality MrBeast shared a piece of Southern Arizona with the world ...

New tools unlock new discoveries in science. So when a new type of non-destructive technology becomes widely available, it's ...

This is where the political debate often diverges from economic reality. Renewable energy has moved past the stage where its growth depends entirely on goodwill or ideology. It is being deployed ...

Stargazers can see six planets all in one evening during the second month of the year, especially Mercury, which is usually ...

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