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A powerful burst of energy from the sun struck the Earth, creating an awe-dropping view of northern lights across the ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried ...

With a synchronized tap from run-of-the-mill hammers on metal plates resting on the ground, researchers kneeling in nine fields across four continents believe they’ve hit upon more than just the earth ...

New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow ...

What's under the ice? For the first time, scientists have been able to map the mountains and valleys under the ice of Antarctica.

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Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

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What lies beneath Antarctica’s immense and impenetrable ice sheet? Until now, we didn’t fully ...