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You can be moving at extraordinary speed and still feel completely stationary. The reason comes down to the difference between velocity and the changes in motion your body can actually detect.

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The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, ...

This week, we see Earth’s auroras, a spacecraft’s view of our planet, and a pioneering photograph of the Orion Nebula.

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On Oct. 16, 2021, NASA's Lucy spacecraft began its journey to the never-before-explored Jupiter Trojan asteroids with an ...