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From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...

Cradled in the nose of a high-altitude research airplane, a new NASA sensor has taken to the skies to help geoscientists map rocks hosting lithium and other critical minerals on Earth’s surface some ...

A pilot signals to a crew member before takeoff from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, on Aug.

On Jan. 23, hundreds of couples in Bangkok tied the knot in a mass wedding ceremony after a 2024 bill recognizing same-sex ...

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Europe is quietly positioning itself to attempt one of the most audacious missions in planetary exploration: a dedicated ...

Looking for Near-Earth objects (NEOs) has demonstrated a simple fact: there are a lot of rocks in space, and many of them ...

Early this year, a surprise space rock made headlines around the globe when the International Asteroid Warning Network ...

Jupiter’s moon Europa is cloaked in a smooth icy shell cracked with fine ridges. Scientists believe that beneath this frozen surface lies a saltwater ocean - possibly holding twice as much water as ...

"Life could go on as usual." Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds. Previous research found that some of the icy ...

The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are known to have oceans of liquid water between the ice shell and the rocky ...