While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

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"Dry skin regions (forearms and calves) were more even, richer, and functionally distinct than sebaceous (behind ears) and ...

Neutrinos – you may have heard of them referred to as "ghost particles" – pass through everything because they are extremely ...

Each fall and winter in parts of California, a special form of radiation fog can linger for days or weeks at a time, known as ...

If you are into planets and also like to get up pre-dawn (much easier in the Northern hemisphere now that it is winter here), ...

For starters, the tiny bird had over 800 tiny stones in its throat, way above what you’d expect. Furthermore, based on their ...

When a dominant male dies or is kicked out by an intruding male [the] new lead male will usually adopt young pups.” “It ...

We have all the latest images of our interstellar visitor from ESA's Juice, Hubble, NASA's STEREO, and even a photobomb from ...

What if, his team pondered, there was some way to get a look inside the egg sac to see how a baby shark develops? Enter: the ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

Seal finger is thought to be the clinical manifestation of infection with a bacterium called Mycoplasma phocacerebrale. It ...