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Scientists calculate that last year was the third-hottest on record, following 2024 and 2023

Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of years. But further clues on just how ancient this landscape is come from far beyond Earth: cosmic rays that leave telltale fingerprints inside minerals at Earth’s surface.

The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years late. In this excerpt from "When Worlds Quake," geophysicist Hrvoje Tkalčić looks…

They're already prepared to start plundering Greenland as soon as possible.

Space apparently changes your frame of mind in more ways than one.

The last of the sneak peeks with 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' brings back beloved characters old and new.

Kept you divin' huh?

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also caught a glimpse of one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors.