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When Is the Geminid Meteor Shower?
The Geminid meteor shower is one of the most reliable annual showers and is associated with 3200 Phaethon, an asteroid or 'rock comet' rather than a typical icy comet. N…
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What Are Meteor Showers and What Causes Them?
Meteor showers happen when Earth passes through streams of small particles left along the orbits of comets or, in some cases, asteroid-like bodies. The particles enter t…
Environment
How Do Climate Models Work?
Climate models are mathematical representations of the atmosphere, ocean, land, ice and the exchanges of energy and matter among them. They are built from physical laws…
Environment
What Is the Evidence for Climate Change?
Evidence for climate change comes from many independent measurements rather than one thermometer record. Surface stations, satellites, ocean instruments, ice observation…
Space science
NASA Artemis: Missions to the Moon Explained
Artemis is NASA’s campaign to build a sustained human exploration capability around and on the Moon, using Orion, the Space Launch System, commercial lunar landers, surf…
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Water on the Moon and Why the Lunar South Pole Matters
Water exists on the Moon in more than one setting, but permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles are especially important for science and exploration.
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What Are Exoplanets?
Exoplanets are planets beyond our solar system. They range from small rocky worlds to giant planets and can orbit stars very different from the Sun.
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After being continuously heated for 270 days at over 1,000 degrees Celsius, the GRX-810 material remained unharmed: What is the secret?
The GRX-810 alloy, developed using a combination of modeling and 3D printing, can withstand temperatures exceeding 1,000 degrees Celsius.
Conquer Mars
NASA robot reaches one year of operation on Mars.
The NASA robot completed its mission as originally planned, lasting 687 Earth days or a Martian year, and began its extended mission.
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NASA reveals the reason why the entire Starlink satellite 'fleet' was crashed.
Shortly after launching 49 Starlink satellites, SpaceX Corporation
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NASA announces unprecedented discovery about the Moon.
The presence of water on the Moon is giving NASA scientists a new direction for plans to send the first woman to the planet.
Space science
How to 'stay up all night' without getting tired, according to NASA's experience.
Astronauts and countless other NASA specialists and engineers frequently work under stressful conditions, and this is how they overcome drowsiness.
Space science
The ironic situation of two astronauts stranded in space.
Once considered a landmark flight for both NASA and Boeing, technical problems have turned the CFT into one of the most forgettable missions in history.
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The sound of a Martian dust devil 'swallowing' a NASA robot
The first recording of a dust storm on the surface of Mars revealed that the dust tornado that 'swallowed' the Perseverance robot in September 2021 was 119 m high.
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NASA catches 'interdimensional' signal from world 12.8 billion years ago
NASA's Nel Gehrels Swift Observatory has picked up an incredible signal from a mysterious world in the early universe.