At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

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Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

At 6 light-years from Earth, a discovery is shaking up astronomy. A new planet, Barnard b, has been detected orbiting a red dwarf star. Less massive than Earth and quite inhospitable, this exoplanet ...

It's a reminder that Earth is part of a much larger and incredibly ... to its specific source asteroid in the main belt. The two new studies place the sources of ordinary chondrite types into ...

Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, researchers have been studying Higgs bosons and searching for signs of physics ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results from a Virginia Tech-led study provide the first direct ...

A new sunspot forming on the surface of the sun might be about to fling solar flares in our direction. The sunspot, named 3856, is facing Earth and has developed a volatile type of magnetic field ...