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The largest known asteroid impact structure on Earth is buried in southeast Australia, new evidence suggests
By Andrew Glikson published
Search for Life In a new study, scientists reveal new evidence for the largest asteroid impact structure on Earth buried Australia in southern New South Wales.

Curious Kids: What comes after space?
By Maggie Lieu published
To find out what is beyond space, a good place to start would be to figure out where space – our universe – ends. The problem is we don't know where space ends, or even if it ends at all.

Over 100 space rocks collected by meteorite hunter Geoffrey Notkin are up for auction today
By Geoffrey Notkin published
Over 100 different meteorite fragments collected by famed space rock hunter Geoffrey Notkin are currently up for bidding from Heritage Auctions.

Return to the moon: The race we have to win (again)
By Rick Tumlinson published
The race is on. We are in a Sputnik moment — a sudden and important recognition that we are about to lose the heavens if we do not act with clarity and unity.

If humans went extinct, what would the Earth look like one year later?
By Carlton Basmajian published
After a year without people, the sky would be bluer, the air clearer. The wind and the rain would scrub clean the surface of the Earth; all the smog and dust that humans make would be gone.

Space Blocs: The future of international cooperation in space is splitting along lines of power on Earth
By Svetla Ben-Itzhak published
Even during times of conflict on the ground, space has historically been an arena of collaboration among nations. But trends in the past decade suggest the nature of cooperation in space is shifting.

A 79-year-old mathematician may have just solved an infinite dimension puzzle that's vexed theorists for decades
By Nathan Brownlowe published
Mathematician Per Enflo, who solved a huge chunk of the 'invariant subspaces problem' decades ago, may have just finished his work.

A dynamic form of dark energy may explain strange radiation signal from the early universe
By Paul Sutter published
We may have already found evidence of an evolving, dynamic kind of dark energy, in the form of the radiation emitted when the first stars appeared in the universe.
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