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A nearby Earth-sized planet offers a rare chance to study how atmospheres survive or disappear on rocky worlds.

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Physicists have long assumed that the universe is uniform at very large scales, but evidence is emerging this is wrong and ...

Arizona’s desert scenery gets wonderfully strange at this Phoenix rock landmark, where stone, sky, and silence create an ...