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Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will have to recover from their time in space. Learn more about what happens to the human ...
NASA and partners are building the first quantum gravity sensor for space, a breakthrough instrument that uses ultra-cold ...
The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | ...
A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...
This mission will pave the way for groundbreaking observations of everything from petroleum reserves to global supplies of ...
So what did each NS-31 crew member pick to fly? A mix of muppets, an Apollo artifact, Bahamian chowder and more.
Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...
The zero gravity era will mark the moment when ... or they could be stationed farther out, between the Earth and the Moon. Eventually, they will service outposts on the Moon itself (a three ...
A lunar eclipse, which causes the moon to look dark or dimmed, occurs when Earth is between the sun and moon and the three celestial objects line up in a row so that the moon passes into our ...