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17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica

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Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons—it's bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it's one of the best places in the...

A hybrid fission/fusion reactor could be the best way to get through the ice on Europa

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In the coming years, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will send two robotic missions to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa. These are...

Flashes on the sun could help scientists predict solar flares

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In the blazing upper atmosphere of the Sun, a team of scientists have found new clues that could help predict when and where the...

Scientists unveil a unified theory for rocky planet formation

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A new theory for how rocky planets form could explain the origin of so-called "super-Earths"—a class of exoplanets a few times more massive than...

Venus may have Earth-like lithospheric thickness and heat flow

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Poor old Venera 9, the Soviet Union's Venus lander, separated from its orbiter and made a hot, violent descent through the dense Venusian atmosphere...

Strong solar flare erupts from Sun

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The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, peaking at 7:57 p.m. EDT on Jan. 5, 2023. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun...

Curiosity rover discovers water-rich fracture halos in Gale Crater

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A research team using new methods to analyze data from NASA's Curiosity rover and its neutron spectrometer Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, or DAN, on...

China is considering where to build a lunar research station

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The second moon race is in full swing, with the world's two big superpowers angling to score a new set of firsts on the...

Old NASA satellite falling from sky this weekend, low threat

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A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky. NASA said Friday the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is "very low."...

Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye

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A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for...

Searching for life on alien worlds

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Twenty-seven years ago, at the University of Geneva, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz—now a professor at ETH—discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like...

Large volcanic outburst discovered on Jupiter’s moon Io

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A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI's Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO). PSI...
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