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The Solar Impulse 2 completed its historic circumnavigation of the Earth on this day in 2016, after a journey that spanned ...
A controversial new study claims that a ‘hostile’ alien spacecraft could attempt to attack Earth in November. Scientists say ...
Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...
Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...
Earth's magnetic field, generated by its molten core, deflects 1.5 million tons of solar material every second. Without it, solar winds could strip away our atmosphere—just like they did to Mars.
One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...
The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and ...
NASA experts explain why a passing asteroid isn't cause for concern, while revealing how often Earth encounters space rocks ...
International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...
The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought ...
Solar storms can bring more than colorful lights to Earth. When fast-moving particles and plasma slam into Earth’s magnetic field, they can temporarily disrupt the power grid.