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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 ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

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

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: small, tornado-like vortices spun off of an ejection from the Sun. These ...

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

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

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