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Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab…

September 23, 20252 min readThe Moon Is Rusting—Thanks to ‘Wind’ Blown from EarthLunar minerals can rust when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments showBy Alexandra Witze…

A stream of charged particles that blows from Earth (foreground) to the Moon could account for the rust compounds found in lunar soils. Credit: Tetra Images/AlamyThe…

Dua Lipa continued her tradition of performing geographic-minded covers during the singer’s visit to Chicago this weekend, bringing out Windy City native Chaka Khan on Friday…

August 31, 20253 min readHuge Cracks in the Earth Are Slicing through Cities, Swallowing Houses and Displacing Thousands of PeopleHundreds of thousands of people are at…

It is hailed as a global endeavour to explore the hidden universe – a powerful telescope comprising more than 130,000 antennae being built in outback Western…

Blue Origin and Anduril have landed new study contracts with the U.S. Air Force to explore how their technology, including rockets, could move military cargo around…

In the late 1800s Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli pointed a telescope at Mars and saw something curious: linear features that he called canali, meaning “channels” or…

This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth, now streaming on Hulu.The Alien movies are filled with so many ideas about what…

If you ask me, it’s a great time to be an Alien fan. Last year’s Alien: Romulus offered a fun, nostalgic taste of what made the…