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Ancient Martian beach discovered, providing new clues to red planet's habitability by Gege Li, Imperial College London edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

The Red Planet may have once been half blue. A sea the size of Earth’s Arctic Ocean blanketed part of Mars about three billion years ago, researchers suggest in a study published January 7 in the ...

Doomsday Clock moves to 85 seconds before midnight, signaling escalating global risks. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists have moved the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before. The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — NASA and Blue Origin are planning to launch the ESCAPADE mission, where a pair of satellites will study Mars' magnetosphere. ESCAPADE will eventually help future ...

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These aluminum-rich clays, called kaolinite, usually form on Earth only after millions ...

A Planet Fitness is under construction at Platt Springs Crossing in the Red Bank area of Lexington. Chris Trainor chtrainor@thestate.com What is currently a construction zone will soon be a Judgement ...

Mars is usually a safe 225 million kilometers away from Earth, but what if the red planet went off course and headed straight toward us? This nightmare scenario would cause devastation long before the ...

Mark your calendars for the last week of February, because one of the coolest celestial events is coming up where six planets will be visible in the night sky at the same time. This phenomenon, known ...

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