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Joyce Chaplin thought she was done with Benjamin Franklin.

“But then I was reading about the Little Ice Age and the particularly bad winter of 1740 to 1741,” said Chaplin, the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History….

SpaceX’s Fram2 astronaut mission is all set to lift off toward a polar orbit, marking a dramatic departure from every crewed spaceflight that has come before. But why has this never been done before?

The privately funded Fram2 mission — named…

On March 29, during a partial solar eclipse, the moon bit off more than it could chew, taking a dramatic ‘bite’ out of the sun. From crisp crescent-shaped suns to the rare ‘devil’s horns’ and ‘double sunrise,’ March’s solar eclipse left…

Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of years are missing. Now, researchers at Utah State University have unveiled a groundbreaking forensic method using…

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown member of the sunflower family in Texas’ Big Bend National Park—the first time a new plant genus and species has been identified in a U.S. national…

SpaceX plans to launch the Fram2 astronaut mission over Earth’s poles tonight (March 31), and you can watch the action live.

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A super-Earth that could explain the universe’s mysterious lack of certain exoplanets has been found by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the planet-measuring ESPRESSO instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

“It’s a…

We tend to think of the moon as little more than a barren rock, but it’s very, very dusty. However, this dust is a little different than the stuff that collects on our bookshelves. Every time…

The last commands have been sent to the ESA’s Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is shutting down its computers and boosting out into a retirement orbit around the Sun.

This has proven to be a hard job….