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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.
Humans Could Orbit Earth’s Poles for the First Time Today. What Took So Long?
The private Fram2 mission is launching later today, sending a crew of amateurs to an unprecedented polar orbit—a frontier ...
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Astronaut takes a mind-bending trip over Earth beneath star trails: Space photo of the day
The Earth and a starry night appear to merge into one strange and otherworldly sci-fi trip in this mind-bending photo ...
Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...
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Invisible electric field discovered surrounding Earth is "as crucial as gravity"
According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...
The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
"Venus kiss" happens Saturday as the planet passes between the Earth and sun
Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...
NASA Astronauts Return To Earth After Being Stuck In Space For 286 Days
Nine months after being stranded aboard the International Space Station, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally back ...
Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...