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Discover San Felipe de Lara Castle, a well-preserved 17th-century Spanish colonial fortress located where the Río Dulce meets ...

Guest columnist Walter Suza considers how AI will develop in the future, and what humans can do to survive it.

Discover the concept of terraforming through science fiction and scientific origins, focusing on the potential habitability of Mars.

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What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter?

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods ...

In a plan ripped straight from the script of the 1998 movie "Armageddon," scientists have suggested a simple, if violent, method of dealing with a troublesome asteroid. Just nuke it. But in this case, ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...