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Martian mountains may have been molded by the wind.

Winter-like conditions with strong winds, cold temperatures and yes, even snow, are in store for the Midwest and Northeast.

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The star is about 175 light-years from Earth.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet may contribute a meter of sea level rise by 2100, far more than previously anticipated.

Eat your heart out, Tatooine: A newly discovered alien planet has not one, not two, but three suns in its sky.

This little creature has an "explosion chamber."

This cruise gets its own icebreaker escort.

Let Buzz Aldrin take you on a journey to Mars.

This planet is so hot that its lava flows may have the same viscosity as water.

Parts of the Great Barrier Reef are in the throes of the most intense coral bleaching event on record, part of a global trend.

China’s greenhouse gas emissions are on a downward trajectory, but its emissions may not have fallen quite as much over the past two years as the Chinese government and the International Energy Agency have suggested.

An otherworldly tourist attraction could be coming to Sin City a few years from now.

Despite their diminutive appearance, scientists discovered that these mucky coastal ecosystems store huge amounts of carbon, helping to slow global warming.

Driven by pronounced warming in the air and seas, wintertime sea ice shrunk to a record low in the Arctic this year.

A new study presents the "tantalizing" possibility of predicting heat wave risk up to seven weeks in advance for the Midwest and East Coast.

As captured in these photos, a volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands roared to life Sunday, spewing ash more than four miles high.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is reporting problems reaching its newly-launched Hitomi satellite.

The bankruptcy of the world's largest privately-held coal company could be the big moment that demonstrates the riskiness of fossil fuel investments.

Let's do some off-world mountaineering.

This model of the sun's magnetic fields brings us one step closer to understanding our nearest star.

Scientists have taken another major step forward in studying the role that genes play in our lives.

Renewable energy sources attracted a record amount of investment in 2015, particularly in the developing world.

The moon's poles have shifted over the eons, likely as a result of geological activity beneath the lunar crust, a new study suggests.

In a first, scientists have seen evidence that Jupiter's auroras can be caused by solar storms.