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Mysterious Interstellar Object Now Approaching Earth

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth in just over a week from now, coming within 167 million ...

NASA astronaut back on Earth after 8 months on space station

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim flew home with two Roscosmos cosmonauts from the International Space Station packed tight in their ...
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A Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Growing, but Scientists Say Not to Worry. Here’s a Look at What Shields Us From Space Weather

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

New images show an interstellar comet that will soon make its closest approach to Earth

New images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a Jupiter-bound mission showcase interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ahead of its ...
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NASA's TRACERS Spacecraft starts early science measurements in Earth’s polar cusp

NASA’s TRACERS mission begins early science measurements in Earth’s southern polar cusp, tracking magnetic reconnection and ...
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Russian Soyuz capsule lands on Earth to return crew of 3 home after months on International Space Station (video)

Jonny Kim of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Roscosmos touched down in Kazakhstan on Tuesday (Dec. 9).

NASA astronaut comes home after circling Earth 3,920 times

Kim officially became an astronaut in 2017. Expedition 72 and Expedition 73 marked Kim’s first visit to the ISS, where he ...

3 Chinese astronauts return to Earth after space junk strands them in orbit

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space ...

Scientists Just Pinpointed Some of the Missing Elements of Life on Earth

Using the XRISM space telescope, scientists spotted faint emissions of the elements in remnants of the Cassiopeia A supernova ...