The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they unveiled the vehicle.

Researchers say they have discovered the first nearby “super-Earth” planet that could possibly support life. A U.S. space agency satellite designed to look for planets outside our solar system made the discovery.

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The climate breakdown continues. Over the past year, The Conversation has covered fires in the Amazon, melting glaciers in the Andes and Greenland, record CO₂ emissions, and temperatures so hot they're pushing the human body to its thermal limits

What scientists can see and measure, in the garbage patches and on beaches, accounts for only a tiny fraction of the total plastic entering the water

Some 7,800 light-years away, in the constellation of Cygnus, lies a most peculiar black hole. It's called V404 Cygni, and in 2015, telescopes around the world stared in wonder as it woke from dormancy to devour material from a star over the course

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Iran's top commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani has been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday night.

@VOA_Learning_English The killing of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani in a United States airstrike marks a major increase in tension between the two countries. Many fear the incident could lead to war and instability in the Middle East. Soleimani was head…

Wildfires have turned southeast Australia into a charred, apocalyptic nightmare, and threaten to wipe out entire species of animals.

Even as the country fights bushfires, it can’t stop dumping planet-warming pollution into the atmosphere.

Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before.

Kremlin website recognises global heating as a problem but lists ‘positive’ economic effects

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Iran’s military power may be no match for the US in technology, glitz and firepower, but Tehran makes up for it with a mix of ballistic missiles, allies and tactics

The Earth may be crawling with undiscovered creatures with a different biochemistry to life as we know it.

The site was an important center for the production of metal in ancient times.

One of the world's most famous runestones is now believed to have been erected by Vikings fearing a repeat of a previous cold climate crisis in Scandinavia, a new study said Wednesday.

Apocalyptic scenes give glimpse of what would be normal conditions in 3C world

And it's helping refine the human story.

After analyzing data from the 1950s through 2019, an international team of scientists determined that the average temperature of the world's oceans in 2019 was 0.075 degrees Celsius (0.135 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 1981–2010 average.