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Scientists estimate that there are billions of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, with more than 6,000 ...

Venus, often called Earth's twin, is in fact a planet of extremes. Beneath its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere are crushing ...

Japanese scientists have found traces of a powerful solar-proton event in tree rings that occurred around 1200-1201.

This image of Venus taken by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft (left) is paired with an artist's depiction of three possible atmospheres on a recently ...

Ash from ancient eruptions may have driven cooling on Earth by fertilizing oceans, boosting algal blooms, and pulling carbon ...

This page links BBC Teach geography content to the objectives of the National Curriculum for England at KS1 and KS2.

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A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...

Research reveals ocean dead zones are dynamic systems, with shifting chemistry that affects nitrogen cycles, carbon storage, ...