The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

Sixty-million-year-old rock samples from deep under the ocean have revealed how huge amounts of carbon dioxide are stored for ...

What happens when a planet contains immense quantities of water but is far too hot for that water to remain liquid?

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This year’s Conference of the Parties, the annual United Nations meeting meant to avert catastrophic climate change, was ...

Laboratory chemists are now edging closer to the moment when lifeless molecules first organized into the chemistry that would ...

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