Solar storms captured the imagination of much of the American public earlier this year when auroras…
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Discovery of a diamond-rich core-mantle boundary offers new information into Mercury’s evolution
Scientists discovered that Mercury may have a 16 km (10-mile) thick diamond layer at its core-mantle…
Ocean Salinity Affects Earth’s Climate. How About on Exoplanets?
There’s a link between Earth’s ocean salinity and its climate. Salinity can have a dramatic effect…
See JUICE Next Week During Its Earth-Moon Flyby
Well-placed observers have a rare opportunity to see an interplanetary spacecraft early next week. If skies…
New Study Shows Mars Could be Terraformed Using Resources that are Already There
The idea of terraforming Mars, making its atmosphere and environment more Earth-like for human settlement, goes…
What Time is it on the Moon? Lunar GPS Needs to Know
GPS is ubiquitous on Earth. It guides everything from precision surveying to aircraft navigation. To realize…
Researchers Developed a Test Bed For Separating Valuable Material on the Moon
Many times, it’s better to flesh out technologies fully on Earth’s surface before they’re used in…
Unexpected excess of cosmic rays found by AMS detector aboard ISS
An analysis of data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the International Space Station has…
Primordial Black Holes Could Kick Out Stars and Replace Them.
Primordial black holes formed during the earliest stages of the evolution of the universe. Their immense…
NASA’s Says Goodbye to its Asteroid-Hunting NEOWISE Mission
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched in 2009, spent the next fourteen and half years…