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Here's what would happen if the moon were actually made of cheese
But unfortunately, this cheesy, water-filled environment wouldn't last for long. The moon's gravity…
Lydia Ramsey
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The sun will destroy Earth a lot sooner than you might think
"The predictions for what exactly will happen to Earth as the Sun brightens over the next billion y…
Ali Sundermier
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Video of SpaceX's Starship reentry shows the ultra-hot plasma plummet back to Earth like never before
Starship captured jaw-dropping video footage as it reentered Earth's atmosphere and plummeted towar…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Jupiter's aurora triggered a planet-wide heat wave, a map animation reveals, solving a mystery that's puzzled scientists
A heat wave on Jupiter helped astronomers solve the planet's "energy crisis" mystery. Watch the vid…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The 'solar wind,' which the sun is constantly blasting over the planets, suddenly disappeared and created a void around Mars
A solar eruption left a void around Mars last year, causing the red planet's atmosphere to balloon …
Erin Snodgrass,Morgan McFall-…
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Ghostly photos from NASA's Curiosity rover reveal beautiful, rare clouds and the first sun rays ever spotted on Mars
NASA says the ethereal images beamed back from the Curiosity rover on Mars' surface show colorful i…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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Why it's so hard to tell where the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will crash
Earlier, scientists had expected that weather from the sun like solar storms and solar flares - bur…
Kevin Loria,Dave Mosher
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NASA's Webb Space Telescope shows off its most detailed image of Uranus yet, revealing storms and a 21-year-long winter in exquisite detail
Surprising details in this new portrait of the planet Uranus show why NASA's James Webb Space Teles…
Paul Squire,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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Russia has docked its new science module to the International Space Station, after 14 years of delays
Russia's Nauka module is 14 years late and had technical issues once it launched. But the new scien…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Microsoft's newest 'moonshot' will make it carbon negative by 2030 - and eventually remove all of the carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975 from the environment
Microsoft has a detailed plan including shifting to 100 percent renewable energy sources for its da…
Ashley Stewart
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NASA's Perseverance rover just turned CO2 into oxygen. The technology could help astronauts breathe on Mars.
NASA wants to send astronauts to Mars, where the atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide. An experiment ju…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Big, Beautiful Photos That Prove No One Celebrates Gay Pride Quite Like New York City
The first March was held in 1970 to commemorate the riots at Stonewall Inn. The year before, police…
Melia Robinson
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A physicist says it's 'quite possible' a SpaceX launch punched a hole in parts of the Earth's atmosphere
Jeff Baumgardner, a physicist from Boston University, discussed the possibility of ionospheric hole…
Beatrice Nolan
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A group of scientists called the 'Ring of 5' found evidence of a major nuclear accident that went undeclared in Russia
Georg Steinhauser, a professor at the University of Hanover in Germany and one of the study's lead …
Aria Bendix
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Step Inside Chelsea Market, The Giant Food Mecca Where Googlers Go When They're Sick Of Free Lunch
Employees who work in the company's Chelsea Market space and across the street at Google's New York…
Madeline Stone
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How hurricanes like Florence form
As the winds churn, an area of low pressure forms over the the ocean's surface. At this point, hurr…
Jeremy Berke
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Scientists found a groundbreaking new reason to plant more trees
Microbes living in tree bark are absorbing methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere on…