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At PST Art, a huge Southern California event where art and science collide, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is inviting ...

Astronomers have found evidence of a process that supports an alternative, more rapid approach to planetary formation, more ...

Nearly a quarter century ago, four identical spacecraft launched into space. Now ... to investigate how our planet's magnetosphere (a bubble around Earth protecting us from solar and cosmic ...

The rings of Saturn are some of the most famous and spectacular objects in the Solar System. Earth may once have had ...

Physicists are still hot on the trail of a substance that could change everything: dark matter in the form of primordial ...

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These planets will be useful for statistically understanding the habitable real estate ... generation of space exploration missions. A table presenting the key objectives of the Earth 2.0/ET ...

During the decades that humanity has collectively been exploring space we’ve sent up a lot of stuff. Much of it has stayed up there, orbiting the planet or eventually falling back to Earth and ...