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Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

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Planet parade with four ... and cataclysms that would befall Earth. Others wondered if such a cosmic arrangement might lead to dangerous geophysical effects, like volcanic eruptions, huge storms ...

Explore six of Earth’s most mysterious and largely untouched ... There are areas on our planet so strange and alien that they appear nearly extraterrestrial. These places, from islands that ...