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A stunning, star-studded view of Earth
This incredible image, featuring flashing Starlink satellites and Earth's glowing atmosphere, was captured over the Pacific ...
NASA says a plane-sized asteroid will pass Earth next week. Here's what to know.
A plane-sized asteroid scheduled to pass Earth next week is making headlines, but NASA experts want the public to understand ...
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Sharp-eyed US-Indian satellite set to launch July 30 to monitor Earth's surface, warn of natural disasters
NISAR, a joint mission of NASA and ISRO set to launch on July 30, will be able to see shifts in the landscape smaller than a ...
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How do scientists calculate the probability that an asteroid could hit Earth?
Any uncertainty in the calculation of the object’s orbit causes variations in the predicted solution. Instead of one precise ...
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move
Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...
Farewell to summer? 'Haze' and 'trash' among Earth's new seasons as climate change and pollution play havoc
Throughout history, people have viewed seasons as relatively stable, recurrent blocks of time that neatly align farming, ...
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Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is packed with water ice that could be older than Earth
"It could represent some of the oldest and most pristine water ever observed, formed in another planetary system and ...
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Astronomers capture giant planet forming 440 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...
A step toward solving central mystery of life on Earth
In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...