In Sequoia National Park in California, a giant sequoia named the President stands 247 feet tall, carries roughly 2 billion leaves, and has been alive for about 3,200 years.
A lost continent lies in pieces beneath southern Europe. Geologists call it Greater Adria: a landmass roughly the size of Greenland that…
The planet's name is HD 189733b. It is one of the closest extrasolar planets to Earth that can be studied in detail, and one of the most thoroughly characterised exoplanets in the astronomical literature.
Freezing solid is supposed to be the end. Ice forming inside a body generally stops the chemistry of life.
In October 1994, a German archaeologist named Klaus Schmidt visited a hilltop near the city of Urfa in southeastern Turkey, in a region of rolling limestone uplands close to the Syrian border.
Drifting through the Milky Way may be billions, and on some estimates trillions, of rogue planets: worlds bound to no star, some flung out of the systems where they formed, others perhaps never attached to a star at all.
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