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Rain comes when water molecules in the atmosphere clump together to form ice crystals or water droplets that are heavy enough to fall to the ground. But what causes that clumping to happen?

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

A rocket successfully launched an Earth science satellite June 28 on the final flight of a vehicle that had long been the ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the ...

One such commercial space station, supported by NASA, is Vast’s Haven-1. Currently expected to launch in May 2026, the space ...

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Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...