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For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Many scientists call Jupiter the architect of the solar system because its immense gravity influenced the orbits of other ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

In the 1960s, Frank Sinatra's song "Fly Me to the Moon" became closely associated with the Apollo missions. The optimistic ...

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Jupiter was shaping the fate of our solar system long before Earth came into existence. A new study conducted by scientists ...

We have more satellites than ever before, but when they burn up they create a new kind of air pollution. Evidence is now ...

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...