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"Every centimeter of sea level rise exposes another 2 million people to annual flooding somewhere on our planet."

After the space community braced for a brutal shake-up at NASA this week, a last-minute decision on Tuesday (Feb. 18) spared over 1,000 agency employees on probationary status from being dismissed.

Researchers discovered that Earth's inner core is surprisingly viscous.

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion.

NASA claims that there are "no new bans" on employees' personal items, amid reports of the agency purging workspaces of LGBTQI+ symbols.

The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed to geostationary orbit and beyond.

Astronomers are expressing disappointment and alarm as the federally-funded Rubin Observatory altered the biography of renowned astronomer Vera Rubin, for whom the facility is named, on its website.

After receiving feedback from nearly 500 people about revising NOAA's Space Weather Scales, scientists continue to assess what changes need to be front and center.

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these strange waves form.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time