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On winter mornings in Harbin, where the air outside could freeze your eyelashes, I would wake up on a bed of warm earth.

A 2021 astronaut photo shows a triple valley system in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park where a massive climate-resilient glacier, a pristine turquoise lake and a murky green "river" come together at a single point.

Humans glow. The universe is beige. Per capita, the Vatican City has the highest crime rate in the world. Nowadays you can't believe everything you read on the internet but sometimes even the stuff that sounds like nonsense turns out to be true. Here are a few perfect examples...

Holiverse founder Lado Okhotnikov explains how space-based solar power will unlock the future of advanced AI intelligence

Why do people often adopt and develop beliefs that lack strong supporting evidence?

China's SpaceX rival, LandSpace, suffered a dramatic rocket failure during a reusability test, highlighting the risks in the global space race.

As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, their distributions and densities and the way they intervene in light, regulate temperatures and choreograph heat…

Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and preserving food. They gathered around a flickering fire to share stories, pass on cultural knowledge and build community.

BepiColombo will arrive in 2026 to uncover the planet Mercury, and unravel how a planet as small, dense, and in such an odd place might have formed.