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Artist Ahmet Ogut said art has a “power and agency” that doesn’t need to wait to be recognized by politicians or scientists.
In the vast expanse of space, an estimated one million Near Earth Objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...
Noctilucent clouds usually form close to the poles, but in recent decades, they’re being spotted closer to the Equator ...
Clouds of dust blown off the Saharan Desert into the southeastern U.S. could affect local weather and make sunrises and ...
Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even ...
Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...
When a volcano erupts, it can spew ash high into the atmosphere—inserting aerosols right where clouds typically form. How ...
Saturn’s moon Titan has Earth-like weather powered by methane. New observations reveal rising clouds and rare molecules.
A rare species of synchronous firefly put on a dazzling light show at Congaree National Park each year. But various threats ...
On Monday, astronomers revealed the discovery of the closest known cloud to Earth, a colossal, crescent-shaped blob of star-forming potential. Named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn ...
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