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Back in the early days of the broadcast networks, natural history shows were a part of the programming diet: NBC ran “Mutual ...

They flattened forests, left massive craters and even killed the dinosaurs. Learn all about Earth’s hugest asteroid strikes.

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Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Every year globally, Earth Hour is celebrated on March 22 to encourage people to turn off the non-essential lights for an ...

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NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five space rocks ...

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.