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UK has emitted so much greenhouse gas since the start of the Industrial Revolution, and these historical emissions are still ...

SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...

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Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.

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SpaceX's seventh test flight that was destroyed less than ten minutes after launch may have rained a significant amount of ...

A pipe dream or a scam to enrich himself further? Here's why scientists are skeptical of Elon Musk's dream for humans to colonize Mars.