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Why did a NASA spacecraft suddenly start talking gibberish after more than 45 years of operation? What fixed it?
Voyager 1 mysteriously stopped sending decipherable science and engineering data back to Earth on N…
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7 times a total solar eclipse revolutionized science
A total solar eclipse made Einstein and his theory of relativity world famous. That's not the only …
Jenny McGrath
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An interplanetary collision might have shrunk Mercury to its current size, scientists think
Mercury, the smallest and closest planet to the Sun, has long captivated scientists with its extrem…
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4 reasons to convince your boss to let you miss work for the total solar eclipse
The total solar eclipse is in the middle of the workday this Monday. Here are 4 reasons that will c…
Ellyn Lapointe
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The eclipse will affect solar power in states like California that are far outside the path of totality
The solar eclipse on April 8 will impact solar power generation across North America, but utilities…
Jenny McGrath
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Jeff Bezos has a vision to colonize space with a trillion people. We asked experts to put it to the test.
Jeff Bezos dreams of a future where a trillion humans live in the solar system. But experts are ske…
Ellyn Lapointe
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A mysterious hole on Mars could be a jackpot of scientific discoveries, from extraterrestrial life to where astronauts could live
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged a hole on Mars in 2022 that recently resurfaced, reigniti…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig
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A rare 'Devil comet' will appear during the 2024 total solar eclipse. Here's how to see the Mt. Everest-sized space rock.
Cryovolcanic Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, aka the Devil comet or Mother of Dragons comet, may be visible …
Ellyn Lapointe
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A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers finally think they know why
"Super puff" WASP 107b confused scientists for years. Now, two independent teams of astronomers thi…
Ellyn Lapointe
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ISRO’s Aditya L1 and Chandrayaan-2 get front-row seats to the strongest solar storm in over 20 years
The Sun has been throwing some major temper tantrums lately, its active sunspot AR13664 directing m…
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Atomic oxygen found sandwiched between layers of sulphurous clouds On Venus
Researchers found that the temperature of atomic oxygen on Venus ranged from –120°C on the day side…
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Interstellar internet may be possible if we can weaponise the gravity of massive stars, say scientists
The potential to manipulate long-range signals, such as light, is enormous, as it paves the way for…
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Is there really another planet hiding deep inside our Earth?
Scientists theorise that approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal collision, termed the "gia…
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Watch the sun show off all year with a total eclipse, strong solar storms, and NASA almost landing on the solar surface
A Helio Year: With a total solar eclipse across the US, a NASA spacecraft "landing" on the sun, and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Mercury's shrinking history revealed through surface craters: insights from the planet's shriveling past
While missions to explore the moon's surface are numerous, the same cannot be said for Mercury. How…
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What it will take to modernize the American grid and usher in the clean-energy revolution
The US grid is ill-equipped to handle what's coming. Here's what it will take to modernize the grid…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Jenny McGrath,Ellyn Lapointe
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China launched a probe to the far side of the moon, stepping up its space race with the US
The mission, which is expected to last 53 days, will collect two kilograms of lunar samples from th…
Mikhaila Friel
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A cluster of sunspots 15 times bigger than Earth could send a solar storm our way as early as Saturday
The cluster of sunspots could send solar weather our way as early as Saturday, though it's difficul…
Marianne Guenot
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In Darkness: Here’s what last week’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse looked like from space!
The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, a space-based apparatus from NASA, managed to capture a sna…
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NASA scientists plan to bake, slice, and fire lasers at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx to understand the creation of our solar system
Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to …