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This year’s Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations meeting meant to avert catastrophic climate change, was ...

Jake Korell’s debut novel 'The Second World' envisions a newly independent Mars shaped by real space-policy debates, ...

Saturn's rings will appear to have disappeared if you catch a glimpse of the planet through the eyepiece of a telescope on the night of Nov. 23 — but don't worry, you'll be witnessing an illusion!

At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle ...