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A new study from NYU Abu Dhabi has found that high-energy particles from space, known as cosmic rays, could create the energy ...

NASA scientists have set out the truth about a 220-foot asteroid hurtling 'near' Earth early next week. Naturally, talk of space rocks on a near-Earth trajectory gets the imagination going. My mind ...

A SpaceX rocket launched in California today with projects from Dartmouth scientists onboard as part of a NASA mission to better predict how weather in space impacts life on Earth.

An international team of astrophysicists, led by Northwestern University and the University of Leicester in England, has uncovered a possible origin of fast X-ray transients (FXTs)—mysterious ...

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This video unpacks the science of this catastrophic event, from the first seconds of the explosion to the long-term environmental impacts that shaped the future of life.