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Two solar probes are helping researchers understand what phenomenon powers the solar wind
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Our Sun drives a constant outward flow of plasma, or ionized gas, called the solar wind, which envelops our solar system. Outside ...
NASA Considers Using Floating Clocks In Space To Tell Time On The Moon
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Illustration: Blue Origin The White House announced earlier this year it would implement a unified time standard for the Moon by 2027, ...
Watch Mars and Jupiter Appear to Almost Touch in a Rare Conjunction
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Two of Earth’s neighbors will appear awfully close in the sky on August 14, as the orbits of Mars and Jupiter make ...
If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNA
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Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here’s how
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A moon of Uranus could have a hidden ocean, James Webb Space Telescope finds
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NASA telescope spots a super Jupiter that takes more than a century to go around its star
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A super Jupiter has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and ...
Watch two plumes of ‘dark’ plasma explode from the sun and send solar storm towards Earth (video)
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Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
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Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send ...
‘Traffic jams’ around Uranus could solve the mystery of its weak radiation belts
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Scientists may have solved a lingering mystery surrounding the ice giant Uranus and its weak radiation belts. It’s possible the belts’ weakness ...
