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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.
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Space miso is nuttier than Earth miso — but it's still miso
This marks the first time scientists deliberately fermented food in space, opening up new possibilities for future astronauts ...
The International Space Station is too clean—what does that tell us about how to co-exist with bugs on Earth?
One of the cleanest places beyond Earth may be making its residents ill. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station ...
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ISS astronauts return with gray hair — here’s what’s behind the shocking color shift
When US astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams touched back down to Earth after their prolonged ... NASA via Getty Images In fact, a 2016 study “found that spaceflight alters ...
'You can start with me': Commander of NASA flight that was stranded in space for more than nine months says he is partly to blame
While the responsibility for issues that left him and Suni Williams stranded on the ISS can be found "throughout the chain", ...
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Microbes found on ISS resembles homes on Earth
That's the conclusion of a citizen science project called Project MERCCURI that analyzed bacteria found on 15 locations on the ISS and compared them with samples from homes on Earth as well as the ...
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What does spending a long time in space do to the human body?
The pair departed the ISS in the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft ... to return to a normal state after returning to Earth. In particular, the researchers found the gene activity of two proteins known ...