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The climate crisis is the most urgent challenge faced by humankind – affecting every region, continent, and ocean on Earth. Space has an untapped potential to make a difference in tackling the threats and challenges faced by humanity. Satellites watch over Earth continuously, helping us to monitor, understand, model, predict and act on climate change and its related challenges.
After decades of studying Venus, many questions remain about our planetary next-door neighbor. One question has particularly intrigued astronomers: which, if any, of Venus’s 1,600 volcanoes are still active?
Titan has become a center of increasing attention as of late. Discoveries from Cassini have only increased interest in the solar system’s second-largest moon. Liquid on its surface has already prompted one upcoming mission – the Dragonfly drone NASA plans to launch in the mid-2030s. Now a team of dozens of scientists has put their names behind a proposal to ESA for a similar mission. This one is called POSEIDON and would specialize in exploring some of TItan’s methane lakes.
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A new space mission will track human-made emissions of greenhouse gases from space to help keep the world on track to meet climate change mitigation targets.
A new physics breakthrough shows how Einstein's theory of general relativity continues to hold up, even for "balding" black holes.
Staying in space for a long time can cause brain damage, according to a new study.
One of the strangest comets in the solar system has been erupting with unpredictable bright outbursts since late September and nobody knows why.
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Satellites play a vital role in monitoring the rapid changes taking place in the Arctic. Tracking ice lost from the world’s glaciers, ice sheets and frozen land shows that Earth is losing ice at an accelerating rate. Currently more than a trillion tonnes of ice is lost each year. The sooner Earth’s temperature is stabilised, the more manageable the impacts of ice loss will be.
A German astronaut is showing his love for Earth during a few extra days on the planet's surface before his first space mission.
You can help NASA make its Mars rovers even better explorers.
As the search for alien life heats up, scientists may need to step up their reporting game a bit.
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Science fiction author Frank Herbert is renowned for the richly-detailed worlds he created. None of his work is more well-known than “Dune,” which took him six years to complete. Like his other work, Dune is full of detail, including the description of planet Dune, or as the Fremen call it, Arrakis.
Amazon aims to launch the first two prototype satellites for its huge Project Kuiper broadband constellation in 2022.
SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut launch for NASA has been delayed until at least Saturday (Nov. 6) by a "minor medical issue" affecting a crewmember.
An astronaut declared the feast her "best space tacos yet."
New analyses of moon rocks delivered to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission confirm that volcanism occurred later than previously known, but also deepen the mysteries surrounding that activity.
Compact, lightweight and powerful in many ways, the DJI Air 2S is a small drone with big features
Astronomers using an innovative method have detected the signal of what could be an extragalactic exoplanet. But confirming its existence will be difficult.
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