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Scientists discover surviving viruses in 15,000-year-old glacier ice on the Tibetan Plateau in China.
At least one of Earth’s creatures is able to survive the vacuum of space.
Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.
Dante’s epic journey through hell and heaven reveal how the poet felt about his own country.
Peaking on the night of August 11/12, up to 100 bright meteors per hour will be visible. Here’s how to make the most of it.
Strange underwater icicles form in the Earth’s coldest regions and freeze living organisms in place.
Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
Mars and Earth were sister planets in many ways, with early similar conditions. Why did Mars die? The leading explanation isn’t universal.
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
We have a morbid curiosity about nautical disaster stories. The Irish “Wreck Viewer” offers a window into centuries of marine misfortune.
1859’s Carrington event gave us a preview of how catastrophic the Sun could be for humanity. But it could get even worse than we imagined.
Yes, the Universe is expanding, but if you’ve ever wondered, “How fast is it expanding,” the answer isn’t in terms of a speed at all.
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
It’s difficult to project a sphere onto a flat, two-dimensional surface. All maps of the Earth have flaws; the same is true for the cosmos.
From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.
There are two conceptions of free will: “straight” and “mixed.”
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The structure of our Solar System has been known for centuries. When we finally started finding exoplanets, they surprised everyone.
Over the past 50 years, 27 leap seconds have been added to our time.
Newborn stars are surrounded only by a featureless disk. Debris disks persist for hundreds of millions of years. So when do planets form?
One of the 20th century’s most famous, influential, and successful physicists is lauded the world over. But Feynman is no hero to me.
“Politics is weird. It’s the only business in the world in which you take a really, really important position, and you give it to someone with no qualifications.” —Tony Blair
Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it’s also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!
National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.