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The new year debuted with an unexpected space-related conspiracy theory on social media that made us forget about the 3I/ATLAS comet conspiracy that preceded it. An imminent alien contact (3I/ATLAS) ...

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Just one day after the U.S. raid in Venezuela and capture of Nicolas Maduro, President Trump turned his sights northward to the island of Greenland. On January 5, President Trump affirmed, “we need ...

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based ...

This piece is part of a special project on deep time examining what the Western U.S. was like thousands, millions and even billions of years ago, and how that history is still visible and ...

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The ancient question of how life began on Earth may have an answer that lies not in our planet's primordial oceans, but in the vast expanse of space itself. Recent scientific discoveries are breathing ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Eli Elster, University of California, Davis (THE CONVERSATION) On Feb. 22, 2020, “Mad” ...