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The Red Planet is desolate, freezing, and has an atmosphere 1% as dense as our own. Its winds blow in great gusts that kick up global dust storms that make...
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The coolest images of (and on) the Red Planet taken in the last year show craters, funky rocks, and human trash.
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NASA shared new data from its DART mission that intentionally slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to test planetary defense technology in the event of a space rock is on a dangerous path for Earth.
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From the heyday of giant, sensor-toting balloons several decades ago to today's overhead fleet of multispectral Earth-observing satellites, atmospheric science has come a long way instrumentally. Kelly Chance, 75, a senior physicist at the Center for Astrophy…
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The mysterious Christmas Asteroid came terrifyingly close to Earth on December 15. If you missed seeing it, then know that you still have a chance to spot.
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was successfully launched on December 25, 2021. Following the commissioning of the telescope and its instruments, the f...
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Researchers from the Université de Montréal decided to re-observe the planetary system using the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes a few years later in hopes of learning...
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Sometimes a name is just a name. Take bears, for example. In Yellowstone National Park, black bears outnumber their brownish-colored grizzly bear cousins, and in coastal areas of the Pacific Northwest, if someone says "brown bear," they mean grizzly bear. But…
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Climate change, rather than competition, played a key role in the ascendancy of dinosaurs through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.
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SpaceX conducted a static fire test of Starship 24 at their Starbase facility in South Texas on Dec. 12, 2022. A drone over the rocket captured amazing foota...
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Key findings - Free high-resolution satellite imagery is helping researchers identify how plant diversity on a micro scale affects elephant movement - The findings show that elephants make considered decisions about which paths to take based purely on their…
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A research team from the Institute of Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) at Nagoya University in Japan used a sensor manufactured by Aichi Steel Corporation to build a magneto-impedance sensor magnetometer (MIM) that measures variations in the Earth's …
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Scientists with NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission have shared new insights into space rock science and planetary defense.
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Ever since Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity predicted the existence of gravitational waves, and an infinitely dense region of space-time, which are now known as black holes, these celestial odd
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The temperature on the Soyuz capsule docked at the International Space Station has risen but the crew are not in danger, the Russian space agency said Friday as it assesses a leak.
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The most common particles are electrons and photons, which are understood to be examples from the great families of fermions and bosons, to which all other particles in nature belong. But there is another possible category of particles, the so-called anyons. …
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The SWOT satellite will monitor water height around the world to shed light on the impacts of climate change.
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The impact sent surface waves rippling over the Martian surface all the way to NASA’s InSight lander, giving scientists a rare view of the planet’s outer layer.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 16 — A SpaceX rocket blasted off early today carrying a US-French satellite designed to conduct an unprecedented global survey of Earth’s surface waters, a...
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The eruption reportedly sent as much as 4 million metric tons of water vapor into space, according to Larry Paxton, a scientist at Johns Hopkins.
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Conventional wisdom says that ancient humans made the transition from walking on four legs to walking on two because they needed to travel more efficiently across open savanna land in Africa.
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Every day this week was a Monday, at least for the world's space agencies—but even then, there were plenty of bright spots. From launches to mission updates and even what's in the night sky from your backyard, here's all the latest.
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A coolant leak aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule docked to the International Space Station could have been caused by a tiny meteoroid strike.
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The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) said it had used the world's largest laser to create, for the first time, a fusion reaction that replicated...
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This week, NASA released a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) showing a strip of galaxy in a way we’ve never seen before.
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