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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Saturn's 'Death Star' moon may have a secret ocean, revealing a new category of worlds that could host alien life
One of Saturn's smallest moons wasn't a candidate for alien life. But if Mimas has an ocean, it cou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Norway's new phosphate deposits are so massive they could guarantee solar power and electric cars keep running for the next 50 years
Seventy-seven billion tons of phosphate discovered in Norway could satisfy the demand for solar pow…
George Glover
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JFK airport's new terminal will be powered by a microgrid and the largest rooftop solar array in New York City
The terminal under construction at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport will be partly …
Catherine Boudreau
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Elon Musk criticizes California's proposal to cut solar energy incentives as 'anti-environment'
Tesla set up a webpage so customers can complain to California's government about the proposal, whi…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Google's shiny new AI gave the wrong information in a promo video — again
Gemini suggested opening a film camera without a dark room, which would ruin the photos. Google's d…
Shubhangi Goel
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New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io
In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signal…
PTI
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Tesla's Solar Roof has a new competitor — Ikea
Ikea's Home Solar program will launch in select markets in California this fall, but the company ha…
Grace Kay
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The Earth did not get its water from asteroids — it may have had it all along
The prevailing theory on how the Earth got its water is that the planet was born dry and water was …
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The first-ever exoplanet discovered was born at least a 100 times farther away from its Sun than where it is now — and has six chemicals in its atmosphere to prove it
Osiris, officially called HD 209458 b, is the first-ever planet that astronomers spotted beyond the…
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Astronomers discover whirling electric winds at Saturn's north pole, solving a decades-old NASA mystery
Saturn's aurora borealis, unlike auroras on other planets, is driven by a powerful weather system. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured photos of cyclones, changing colors, and seasons on 4 distant planets
NASA's most powerful space telescope peers across the solar system to spy new storms on Jupiter and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An astronomer at Japan's space agency is making simple animations that reveal the surprising physics of the solar system
As a scientist at both NASA and JAXA, James O'Donoghue has studied the planets. In his free time, h…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's new Mars probe took its first photo of the red planet as the mission prepares to make history
Tianwen-1 is the first Mars mission with an orbiter, lander, and rover in one expedition. It's desi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A train on the Moon? NASA’s new space tech includes lunar railways, Martian rockets and more
NASA has set its sights on six mind-blowing tech concepts that seem ripped straight from science fi…
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Reliance to commission new energy giga complex this year
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd will commission a new energy giga complex in Gu…
PTI
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Adani Green says its operating renewable portfolio reaches 8,024 MW, largest in India
The combined operational generation capacity of this newly added hybrid power plant is 700 MW and h…
ANI
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The largest comet ever seen, estimated to have an 80-mile nucleus, is barreling toward the inner solar system
The comet, which is bigger than the state of Rhode Island, is hurtling toward the inner solar syste…
Yelena Dzhanova
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MIT researchers have created a solar-powered desalination device that can make seawater drinkable for less than the cost of US tap water
The process, called desalination, could be key to solving global water scarcity, one expert told In…