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Smelliest planets in and around our solar system
Have you ever wondered if the seemingly endless vacuum of space had a smell? The answer to this que…
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Right now, the Sun is far more active than predicted - and small satellites are paying the price
Three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's …
PTI
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Seeds of life among the stars: MIT scientists find complex carbon molecules in a distant cloud, pointing to clues to Earth’s beginnings!
This discovery supports the idea that life's building blocks were present early in the Solar System…
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Why did a NASA spacecraft suddenly start talking gibberish after more than 45 years of operation? What fixed it?
Voyager 1 mysteriously stopped sending decipherable science and engineering data back to Earth on N…
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Forget distant fly-bys of giant rocks—this plane-sized asteroid will come within 1.7 million km of Earth this week!
Come Friday, this near-Earth object will make its closest approach to our planet in a decade!
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Last week, an asteroid pair came dangerously close to Earth, posed for some pictures and left!
Both asteroids 2024 MK and 2011 UL21 came in peace and were more than happy to be papped. 2011 UL21…
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Did you experience wonky broadband service recently? A broken satellite in space might have something to do with it!
An unknown event in geostationary orbit on October 19, 2024, has led to the fragmentation of the In…
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An interplanetary collision might have shrunk Mercury to its current size, scientists think
Mercury, the smallest and closest planet to the Sun, has long captivated scientists with its extrem…
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Robinhood's cofounder has joined the rapidly growing commercial space race, and wants to beam solar power from satellites to earth
A report from McKinsey earlier in 2024 estimated that the global space economy will be worth $1.8 t…
Polly Thompson
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Bengaluru-based Pixxel Space plans to mine asteroids for building settlements in space
Satellites can look for ice on asteroids which can be used as fuel by splitting it into hydrogen an…
PTI
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Residential solar is struggling. One company's add-on is helping it hit 1 million installations.
Sunrun CEO Mary Powell said the company is focusing on a "battery-first" strategy and generating ca…
Catherine Boudreau
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The Covid lockdowns did WHAT to the Moon?!
A recent study has revealed an unexpected consequence of the global lockdowns imposed in 2020 to cu…
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NASA scientists plan to bake, slice, and fire lasers at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx to understand the creation of our solar system
Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to …
Maiya Focht
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Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could help prevent a future mass extinction on Earth.
Thanks to the presence of an rare element called ruthenium, scientists think they know where the as…
Jenny McGrath
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Mercury's shrinking history revealed through surface craters: insights from the planet's shriveling past
While missions to explore the moon's surface are numerous, the same cannot be said for Mercury. How…
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In Darkness: Here’s what last week’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse looked like from space!
The Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera, a space-based apparatus from NASA, managed to capture a sna…
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7 times a total solar eclipse revolutionized science
A total solar eclipse made Einstein and his theory of relativity world famous. That's not the only …
Jenny McGrath
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NASA explains how it would alert the public of an apocalyptic asteroid strike
In the event an asteroid is headed for Earth, here's how NASA plans to alert the public of an impen…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Asteroids in our solar system
Visualisation of asteroids in Earth's solar system and their orbits around the Sun.
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Jeff Bezos wants a solar system with a trillion people, a thousand Einsteins and Mozarts, and 37,000 active serial killers
Jeff Bezos's dream for the solar system includes one trillion human inhabitants. But he made one cr…