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Using commercially available telescopes and spectral filters, an amateur astronomer named Steve Hill collected data to map ...

Cloud-watchers can talk all about the interesting shapes they've noticed over the years. They may have been gazing out the ...

We spoke with Foothill College astronomy instructor Geoff Mathews about the biggest highlights on the astronomical calendar, ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

New research shows iodine in Earth’s early atmosphere delayed the ozone layer’s stabilization, affecting life evolution.

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Accessible to anyone the world over, witnessing the majesty of the solar system, including the Milky Way, and its billions of ...

Michigan State University researcher Dalton Hardisty contributed to a new Yale University-led study finding that Earth’s early atmosphere hosted a battle royal between iodine and oxygen. This war ...

If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere, where ...

NASA has arrived at two ways of returning samples collected on Mars to Earth. Now, the agency will test the options to see if ...