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NASA is back on the moon with the first commercial lunar landing ever
Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander is the first US spacecraft to land on the moon in more than 50 …
Ellyn Lapointe,Morgan McFall-…
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Small airports are magnets for the wealthy: Here are the 8 most popular for private jets
Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod, Jackson Hole: These and five other small cities attracted the most pri…
Taylor Rains,Grace Kay
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Watch the sun show off all year with a total eclipse, strong solar storms, and NASA almost landing on the solar surface
A Helio Year: With a total solar eclipse across the US, a NASA spacecraft "landing" on the sun, and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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James Webb Space Telescope reveals one of the most mysterious worlds in the universe might have a volcanic moon
Mysterious brown dwarfs are neither planets nor stars, but this one somehow has northern lights, me…
Maiya Focht,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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NASA hopes to get the Voyager spacecraft to their 50th anniversary with clever engineering and difficult choices
Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled deeper into space than any human-made objects. NASA hopes they'll sta…
Jenny McGrath
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A huge tornado on the sun released a cloud of hot gas 6 times the size of the Earth
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the moment a cloud of charged plasma escaped the sun and…
Marianne Guenot
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Mysterious 'ghostly' shadows larger than planet Earth reappeared on Saturn's rings. NASA says it expects even more to appear soon.
NASA's Hubble telescope spotted mysterious spots on Saturn's rings that scientists have puzzled ove…
Jessica Orwig
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How to stay safe in an extreme solar flare, where the sun bombards Earth with radiation and magnetic havoc
Preparing for an extreme solar storm mostly means getting ready to live without electricity for sev…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth's core is growing lopsidedly, a new study suggests - and it's been doing that for at least half a billion years
New research shows the iron crystals that comprise Earth's inner core grow unevenly, with more iron…
Aylin Woodward
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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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What you think are aurora may actually be a different phenomenon scientists are calling 'Steve'
What seem like aurora may be a totally separate phenomenon called "Steve," a California graduate re…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Sharks are among a group of animals with a 6th sense that humans don't have - they use Earth's magnetic field to navigate
A new study suggests sharks use the magnetic field to orient themselves on long migrations. They're…
Aylin Woodward
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Earth's core may be coated in a layer of crystals created by water leaking from the surface: study
Scientists have long looked for an explanation for a mysterious zone in the outer core. Now some th…
Marianne Guenot
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Remnants of an ancient planet buried inside the Earth may be the cause of a weak spot in the magnetic field
There's a growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field. Scientists say it may be due to giant pieces…
Aylin Woodward
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A solar eruption headed straight for Earth is eating up stray energy and could trigger a strong geomagnetic storm by Friday
A possible geomagnetic storm could make auroras visible in parts of the northern US, farther south …
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Marianne …
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A cluster of sunspots 15 times bigger than Earth could send a solar storm our way as early as Saturday
The cluster of sunspots could send solar weather our way as early as Saturday, though it's difficul…
Marianne Guenot
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Space exploration may unfortunately lead to erectile dysfunction, study finds
Researchers exposed a group of rats to simulated cosmic rays while their hind limbs were suspended …
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A supermassive black hole is actually losing energy instead of gobbling it all up, new research shows
Scientists have long believed that magnetic fields could suck energy out of black holes, but they d…
Sonam Sheth
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Photos show the Northern Lights appeared as far south as Texas on Sunday from a double eruption on the sun. Auroras could become more common as solar activity nears its peak.
Thanks to a pair of coronal mass ejections from the sun over the weekend, rare displays of the Nort…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Jenny McG…
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged a stunning supernova remnant and revealed details Hubble couldn't capture
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently observed the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,…