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The Webb Telescope will be used to study the auroras of Saturn and Uranus
Rethink your belief that our planet is the only place where auroras may be seen in all their beauty. In…
An International Space Station Debris Piece Veers Back Toward Earth
After nearly three years of careening around Earth, a bundle of exhausted batteries from the International Space Station fell out…
Rare Meteorites That May Have Been Long-Lost Mercuryian Pieces Just Landed on Earth
Upon closer examination, a few meteorites that had crashed-landed outside of Berlin in late January were discovered to be among…
Was Earthly Life Discovered by the Galileo Mission?
The Galileo spacecraft was launched into space in the fall of 1989 with the goal of visiting Jupiter and its…
This Month, A Large, Dead European Satellite Will Crash Back To Earth
Later this month, a dead European satellite will do a fiery death plunge that its controllers will closely watch. The…
Empire State Building-Sized Asteroid to Approach Earth on Friday
An asteroid the size of a skyscraper is predicted by astronomers to pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on…
Following a failed moonshot, a US company’s lunar lander will burn up in Earth’s atmosphere
Following a botched moonshot, a U.S. company’s lunar lander is scheduled to explode in Earth’s atmosphere shortly. According to Astrobotic…
Fossils Are the Oldest Record of Oxygenic Photosynthesis at 1.75 Billion Years
Without photosynthesis, the mechanism by which plants and certain other lifeforms transform sunlight into chemical energy, the history of life…
“Devil comet” speeding toward Earth will blow up in the next few days
In the next few days, a horned “devil comet” hurtling toward Earth is expected to blow up. With a diameter…
How the Earth could physically boil to death due to the unchecked greenhouse gas effect
Heat has a harder time escaping into space when more greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere. This raises the…