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Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with th ...

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.

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The Masters of Evil seize control of the Avengers' Impossible City headquarters in Avengers #26, hitting stores Wednesday.

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

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On our planet, the cycle and balance of carbon from reservoir to reservoir is a matter of life or death. Carbon moves from ...

The Danish artists have pushed beyond the gallery and into the outside world, making works designed to serve communities — ...

A decade after the release of "The Martian" and a decade out from the world it envisions, how close is reality to fiction?