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A roughly four-tonne machine built on Earth ended an uncontrolled 18-month journey by striking the Moon on 5…

Drought. Fire. Mass illegal logging. Now, researchers warn another “Super” El Niño could doom the Amazon rainforest. “The…

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A British company has been hired to salvage a grounded Russian shadow fleet tanker off Oman’s coast and…

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A kangaroo joey and a young bison are now best friends at a New Jersey zoo. The critters…

A night-migrating robin can choose a seasonally appropriate direction inside a featureless cage even when stars and landmarks…

Ruddiman, W. F. The Anthropocene. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 41, 45–68 (2013). Article Google Scholar Malhi, Y.…

Every so often a piece of research comes along that isn’t really about a discovery, it’s about a…

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A SpaceX rocket stage launched in January 2025 drifted for more than 18 months before crashing into the Moon at 8,700 km/h, carving a crater tens of metres wide — while newer lunar launches are sending spent stages safely onward into orbit around the Sun instead.