Decades of devastating quakes, including the Fukushima disaster, have pushed Japan to build some of the world’s most advanced detection and early-warning systems.

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A rocky exoplanet outside the Earth's solar system may have an atmosphere, according to new evidence gathered by NASA ...

It’s hard enough for most of us to predict what we’re having for dinner tonight, much less how the world will look in 2100.

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Astronomers detect strong evidence of an atmosphere on ultra-hot TOI-561 b, a low-density rocky planet circling a star older ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests that exoplanet TOI-561 b is surrounded by a thick atmosphere above a global magma ocean.

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...

He cited the astronomical gaffe in January, when The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., announced the discovery of an ...

When the Sun reaches its lowest point in the sky, which always occurs around December 21 for those of us in the northern ...

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...