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The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

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Can you imagine a dam so huge that it can slow down the daily movement of the Earth? Well, there is one. The massive ...

As far back as 470 BCE, ancient Greeks speculated the Earth itself moves. In 1851, French physicist Leon Foucault ...

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Often dubbed “Earth’s twin” due to their similar size and proximity to the Sun, holds a captivating allure for scientists.

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Have you seen it? I’m talking about that super-bright and super-red “star” rising in the east in the early evening Butler sky ...

Yet, NASA issued a startling warning about the potential consequences of filling the dam. The space agency cautioned that ...