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Barnard’s Star is notorious among astronomers for a history of false planet detections but it appears the latest discovery – ...
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
YR4, once referred to as a ‘city-killer’ with the potential to cause regional devastation and impact the climate, is no ...
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Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions face political, technical, and timing hurdles, impacting NASA’s Moon plans and America’s space ...
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How we study our planet
We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.
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Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...
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