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2022 was a year full of scientific discoveries and the dawn of the JWST. But Hubble’s still going after 32 years. Here’s the amazing proof!

The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.

Humans won’t survive if we stay on Earth. Michio Kaku explains.

The secret ingredient is violence, and it just might indicate that “moonmoons” aren’t as uncommon as most astronomers think.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, matter can escape the center of the Earth.

65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?

Aliens are often portrayed in popular culture as humanoid. But in reality, intelligent extraterrestrials might take far stranger forms.

A levitating vehicle might someday explore the moon, asteroids, and other airless planetary surfaces.

Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth’s specific evolutionary history guarantees that its life forms — including humans — are utterly unique.

A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?

The Moon is the most likely place for evidence from the dawn of life on Earth to be preserved in cold storage.

Finding this missing piece of water’s path through the universe offers clues to how it came to be on Earth.

Yes, NASA’s Perseverance rover found organics on Mars. So did Curiosity. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean anything in the search for life.

Straddling the bounds of science and religion, Newton wondered who set the planets in motion. Astrophysics reveals the answer.

“Should they strike, each of them has an energy at impact equal to all of the nuclear weapons on Earth combined.”

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.

Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we’re relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here’s our place in natural history.

The Universe is an amazing place. Under the incredible, infrared gaze of JWST, it’s coming into focus better than ever before.

Asteroid Bennu is still far more likely to fly right by us than to make impact.

No matter how you define the end, including the demise of humanity, all life, or even the planet itself, our ultimate destruction awaits.

Every December, the Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak. Its 2021 show will be spectacular, but only if you do it right.

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

Einstein’s theory of general relativity introduced the concept of space having a shape. So, what is the shape of space?

Scorpions would probably survive.

See the world through the eyes of a horse — or a cake pan.

Do you think you know the Solar System? Here’s a fact about each planet that might surprise you when you see it!

Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.

Over 50 years since humans last walked on the Moon, astronaut footprints and rover tracks are still visible. But they won’t last forever.

Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.