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Rich trio back on Earth after charter trip to space station

ASTRONOMY
Three rich businessmen returned from the International Space Station with their astronaut escort Monday, wrapping up a pricey trip that marked NASA's debut as...

Scientists model landscape formation on Titan, revealing an Earth-like alien world

ASTRONOMY
Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While...

Space Blocs: The future of international cooperation in space is splitting along lines of power on Earth

ASTRONOMY
Even during times of conflict on the ground, space has historically been an arena of collaboration among nations. But trends in the past decade...

Earth Day, April 22

EARTH
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes...

Earth’s inner core was formed 1-1.5 billion years ago

EARTH
There have been many estimates for when the earth’s inner core was formed, but scientists from the University of Liverpool have used new data...

What is the Wilson cycle?

EARTH
A Simple Wilson CycleThe Opening and Closing of An Ocean Basin Wilson cycle The cyclical opening and closing of ocean basins caused by movement of the...

Magnetic oceans and electric Earth

EARTH
Oceans might not be thought of as magnetic, but they make a tiny contribution to our planet’s protective magnetic shield. Remarkably, ESA’s Swarm satellites...

Chinese astronauts return to Earth after six months on space station

ASTRONOMY
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, ending China's longest crewed mission as it continues its quest to...

Modeling Earth’s magnetosphere in the laboratory

ASTRONOMY
A magnetosphere forms around any magnetized object, such as a planet, that is immersed within a stream of ionized gas, called plasma. Because Earth...

Understanding the Earth under Hawaii

VOLCANOES
In the 1960s, some 50 years after German researcher Alfred Wegener proposed his continental drift hypothesis, the theory of plate tectonics gave scientists a...

Scientists detect unexpected widespread structures near Earth’s core

EARTH
University of Maryland geophysicists analyzed thousands of recordings of seismic waves, sound waves traveling through the Earth, to identify echoes from the boundary between...

Early Earth’s atmosphere was less conducive to lightning

EARTH
In 1952, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey made sparks fly in a gas-filled flask meant to reflect the composition of Earth's atmosphere around 3.8...
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