Humans may, one day, be able to inhabit other planets. Some advocates argue that remaining on only one courts disaster.

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A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

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NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

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Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...