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If you’ve ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the Sun, you might well think our planet …

Stars are born from huge clouds of mostly hydrogen gas floating in space. Astronomers like me study this …

How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about …

How stable are planetary systems? Will Earth and its seven siblings always continue in their steady celestial paths, …

About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was a very dark place. The glow of the …

For decades, psychology departments worldwide have studied human behavior in darkened laboratories that restrict natural movements, such as …

The Australian continent is now geologically stable. But volcanic rocks, lava flows, and a contemporary landscape dotted with …

Australia can lay claim to two new native mammal species, which were discovered as part of our collaborative …

An article published this week in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine documents what is believed to be the …

During ice ages, dry, frozen terrain extended over much of northern Europe, Asia, and North America. Many plants …