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NASA's Mars bound MAVEN spacecraft was rolled out to the seaside launch pad on Saturday Nov. 19 on Florida's space coast on an expedition to study the Red Planet's atmosphere and its potential for astrobiology. All syste...

Long-term and average changes are in the focus of the discussion on climate change: globally, as the different scientific climate models all predict, it will be warmer on Earth at the end of the century. For decision-mak...

Two billion years ago the Earth system was recovering from perhaps the single-most profound modification of its surface environments: the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans. This led to a series of major changes in...

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"While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this "large quasar group" (LQG), we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe," said Dr Clowes of University of Central Lancashire...

Earlier robotic probes and rovers sent to Mars were designed to investigate the surface of the planet, but the space agency's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft (MAVEN) is built for a different purpose.

I am at the MAVEN launch at Kennedy Space Center for a "NASA Social" event. These events are geared towards space enthusiasts of all backgrounds who are active on social media to increase public awareness and excitement ...

An Orbital Sciences Minotaur 1 rocket will launch from Wallops Island, Va., on Nov. 19 filled with satellites for the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and other agencies. It will be visible across a wide swath of the U.S...

Hoping against hope, I was starting to dare think that maybe, just maybe, Comet ISON might live up to the hype that it will be a spectacular comet. Sometimes, dreams do come true. Check. This. Out. Holy sublimation! That...

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday. MAVEN will study the Red Planet from orbit, seeking to understand how Mars lost most of its atmosphere long ago...

Thousands of people on Sunday rallied across Australia calling for stronger action on climate change, days after new conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott moved to abolish a carbon tax.

UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Saturday a super typhoon that killed thousands in the Philippines was an example of climate change and should serve as a warning to mankind.

Thousands protested Saturday in Naples over illegal waste dumps blamed on the mafia that generate toxic fumes, an AFP photographer said.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) Researchers now have stronger evidence of granite on Mars and a new theory for how the granite -- an igneous rock common on Earth -- could have formed there, according to a new study. Th...