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Japan’s catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip,” in some areas ...

Next summer, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will start sidling up to several asteroids near Jupiter. On its way there, it has studied ...

The effort to pull some 900 ocean-monitoring buoys and sensors from the water drew backlash from scientists and lawmakers ...

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Construction of the Deep Synoptic Array is about to start in rural Nevada. It will reveal untold galaxies in stunning detail ...