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

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

N eanderthals in France may have been strutting around in leather clothes with matching handbags more than 100,000 years ago.