Russia has launched a humanoid robot to the International Space Station on the first uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft ever to visit the orbiting laboratory.
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NASA's Mars 2020 rover reached another milestone with the first successful test of its SuperCam instrument.
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India's Chandrayaan-2 mission is in orbit around the moon, and the craft's vantage point is spectacular.
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We have never seen anything quite like this.
This week the skies above Brazil’s largest city turned black in the middle of the afternoon due to the massive wildfires that are...
The new crater lake at Kīlauea's summit, spotted on August 15, 2019. M. Patrick, USGS-HVO
Over the last few weeks, we've had two newsworthy events that involve volcanoes and water. This is a common combination on our planet and can have...
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Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind? These desert microbes do.
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For better or worse, machine learning and big data are poised to transform the study of the heavens
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NASA has announced that a new exoplanet has been discovered and the new exoplanet is called LTT 1445 A b. It was discovered using data from the TESS space telescope. A team from the Harvard Center for Astrophysics discovered the system when looking...
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Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous,...
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Researchers measuring heat in Uranus's atmosphere were "astonished" to find the warm glow of rings around the planet in thermal images.
They determined the rings' temperature for the first time: -320 degrees Fahrenheit.
Uranus's brightest ring is...
Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, has just launched a new Soyuz booster on a trip to the ISS. Unlike other Soyuz flights that blast off to bring astronauts to the space station, this trip has no humans on board. It does, however, have a...
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SpaceX is teaming up with the maker of a space tugboat, which would nudge satellites around, clean up space junk, and do other orbital housekeeping.
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An international team of researchers has found evidence that suggests that as the planet continues to heat up due to the emission of greenhouse gases, it will become increasingly difficult to forecast El Niño events. In their paper published in the...
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Using Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), astronomers have observed the magnetar XTE J1810−197 after its recent radio outburst to investigate its emission. Results of the study, presented in a paper published August 12, offer more insights...
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European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years, but this unique climate change really does have neither a...
Vice President Mike Pence led the 6th meeting of the National Space Council Tuesday, touting America's commitment to space exploration. Pence reaffirmed the administration's pledge to return to the Moon by 2024 and then continue on to...
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Get an astronaut’s view of auroras, stars, and the Milky Way surrounding our beautiful planet. 12,500 images taken by European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst were combined to create the incredible time-lapses of Earth seen from the...
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NASA scientists are in Greenland on a mission to track melting ice. Global warming is the chief culprit, but scientists want to know how this is happening. They're aboard a research plane this week dropping probes into the ice to learn more....
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Thirty years after a probe visited Neptune, many scientists say now is the time to finally return to that world and Uranus
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The Russians were the first to send a dog into space, the first to send a man, and the first to send a woman. However, NASA sent the first humanoid robot to the International Space Station. The Russians, though, want to send FEDOR and proclaim that...
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