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The moon is getting slightly farther away from the Earth each year — a physicist explains why
Scientists measure the distance to the Moon by bouncing lasers off mirrors placed there by space probes and astronauts.
NASA’s Carruthers mission will capture the first full images of Earth’s exosphere, helping protect astronauts and guide the search for life.
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the ...
The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the magnetic field which shields our atmosphere and oceans from solar radiation, ...
The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get ...
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‘Ultimate Cosmic Carpool’ Sends Three New Missions to Monitor Space Weather and the Protective Bubble Around Our Solar System
The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...
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