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Scientists claim to have found evidence of alien life. But ‘biosignatures’ might hide more than they reveal
The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet’s atmosphere. On Earth, DMS ...
NASA’s PUNCH Mission Kicks Off With Dazzling First Images of the Sun
PUNCH, a bold new NASA mission, has successfully taken its first images of the Sun’s corona from orbit using four ...
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NASA Space Exploration: Cislunar & Interplanetary Voyages
This film introduces viewers to the fundamentals of space science, exploring how humans have long pondered the effects of the ...
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Astronomers discover a planet that's rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail
A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...
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Happy Earth Day 2025! Write your name in NASA satellite images and celebrate our planet (video)
April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to ...
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Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions
Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...
Planetary alignment provides NASA rare opportunity to study Uranus
When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...
This is how NASA's 70-year-old astronaut looks after returning from 220 days in space
The image is incredible. The passage of time on the body of a 70-year-old man after spending 220 days aboard the International Space Station(ISS) has been striking, to say the leas ...
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The Best James Webb Space Telescope Images So Far
Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...
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Can Space Mining Disrupt Earth’s Tectonic Activity?
As asteroid mining becomes a reality, scientists are questioning whether extracting space minerals could alter Earth’s ...
Special Report: Earth's warming affecting Americans from coast to coast
Continued use of fossil fuels has warmed oceans, melted ice caps and led to some of the hottest years in recorded history. Dangerous and costly severe storms and wildfires have become more frequent as ...