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Story Links (VERSION FRANÇAISE SUIT)QUEBEC CITY — The McGill Martlets captured the Canadian University…

For decades, planetary scientists looked at the massive dust storms on Mars and wondered if they produced electricity. These storms can grow until they wrap around the entire planet, moving millions of tons of dry, abrasive sand…

For decades, planetary scientists looked at the massive dust storms on Mars and wondered if they produced electricity. These storms can grow until they wrap around the entire planet, moving millions of tons of dry, abrasive sand…

SANDY — I have wondered at photos from the Hubble Space Telescope throughout my life. To learn from the following video that similar photos and discoveries can now be taken in a local backyard — for people who can invest in the right…

A bleak photograph shows a mother polar bear and her three cubs resting on bare ground and moss, their coats brown with mud.The image is on the shortlist for this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People's Choice Award —…

In a rainforest in Panama, a baby hummingbird scared off a wasp by behaving like a poisonous caterpillar. That tiny bird, a white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora), has given scientists the first clear record of caterpillar-style…

In a rainforest in Panama, a baby hummingbird scared off a wasp by behaving like a poisonous caterpillar. That tiny bird, a white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora), has given scientists the first clear record of caterpillar-style…

There’s an electrifying new development in Mars science. NASA’s Perseverance rover has just captured proof of a weather phenomenon that was long suspected, but until now, never observed: electric discharges that brew within the dust…

Scientists now have proof that Mars' dusty storms can generate mini lightning, putting to rest decades of speculation.The discovery came from a microphone aboard NASA's…

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake ripped through the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone on July 29, 2025, it launched a Pacific-wide tsunami – and a rare natural experiment.NASA and the French space agency’s SWOT satellite happened to pass…