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Martian Methane Baffles Scientists: Curiosity Rover’s Surprising Discovery
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected methane in Gale Crater on Mars, a surprising find as there are no signs of ...
NASA pauses $16 billion Hubble space telescope that pinned down age of the universe due to ‘glitch’
One of Hubble’s gyroscopes is acting up, so the telescope went into safe mode Scientists are figuring out what to ...
Lab-grown diamond created in less than 3 hours — will it revolutionize the jewelry industry?
Fashion & Beauty By Brooke Kato Published April 26, 2024, 1:27 p.m. ET Diamonds are a girl’s best friend— but ...
Christina Koch holds home state dear; hopes to inspire future explorers
RALEIGH, N.C. — Before she set a record in space and before she even became an astronaut, Christina Koch was ...
Astrophotographer Reveals Amazing Spirals Around ‘Green Devil’ Comet
This incredible image of the comet 12P (Pons-Brooks) shows a spiral pattern in the comet’s core. This is the result ...
NASA discovered a planet twice as big as Earth with a gas that is ‘only produced by life’
Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Images NASA’s James Webb Telescope picked up a ‘possible detection’ of a molecule which ‘on ...
Starless Rogue Planet As Heavy As 10 Earths Found By NASA Telescope
NASA’s planet-hunting telescope Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first free-floating, or rogue, planet. It is a terrestrial ...
NASA still doesn’t understand root cause of Orion heat shield issue
Enlarge / NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends toward the Pacific Ocean on December 11, 2021, at the end of the Artemis ...
Ozone hole: Why Antarctic wildlife is being ‘sunburnt’
By Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News 1 hour ago Image source, Getty Images Image caption, A hole appears in ...
Watch 2 gorgeous supernova remnants evolve over 20 years (timelapse video)
When we picture what’s in deep space, we often think of static images — colorful composites of distant objects like ...