A world of diamonds? NASA James Webb Space Telescope discovers a gem-rich planet five times larger than Earth
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. The planet is five ...
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Surface cracks on planetary bodies may help predict if life is present
Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...
GoPro footage shows moment daredevil jumped from edge of space to Earth at 843mph
Arguably the most famous of them all was Felix Baumgartner who, in 2012, teamed up with Red Bull for the huge 26 mile jump to ...
Here’s What the Rise of Clean Energy Looks Like From Space
Researchers trained a machine-learning model to detect onshore wind turbines and utility-scale solar farms in quarterly, high ...
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How did Earth get such a strange moon? Exploring the giant impact theory
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...
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They're Back! 'Stranded' Astronauts Make a Safe Return to Earth's Surface
What started as an eight-day mission on the International Space Station (ISS) became a nine-month wait for a return trip back ...
Astronauts splashdown on Earth after spending an unexpected 9 months in space
After a week-long trip to the International Space Station ballooned into a nine-month stay, NASA astronauts Barry (Butch) ...
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What do lunar eclipses teach us about Earth?
Ready for a show? On the night of March 13 into the early hours of March 14, a total lunar eclipse will occur as the moon moves into the Earth's umbra, or shadow, turning the bright white lunar ...
‘Space junk’ is clogging the atmosphere—and it’s going to make weather forecasts and internet access much worse
A new study from MIT found that climate change will make space junk pileup—causing ripple effects across everything from ...
NASA's EZIE launches on mission to study Earth's electrojets
Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon ...
Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets?
When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...
What did the eclipse look like from the moon's surface? See photos taken by lunar lander
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an eclipse from the moon.