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Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Winter Grips Japan Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions
Why are planets rarely found orbiting a pair of stars? UC Berkeley and American University of Beirut physicists find that general relativity makes the orbit of a tight binary pair
WASHINGTON — A little more than a year after dismissing the moon as a “distraction,” Elon Musk says SpaceX will focus on lunar settlement before sending humans to Mars. In
jsc2026e004045 (Oct. 17, 2025) — The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station pose together for an official crew portrait. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut
Teams monitor the countdown during a dress rehearsal in preparation for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission with
The European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up to broadcast the highly anticipated launch and docking of the Crew-12 mission, marking the start of a nine-month expedition aboard the International
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.
There’s been widespread agreement that a supermassive black hole resides in the Milky Way’s Center. But that may not be true. Researchers say that a dense clump of fermionic dark
Illustration of the electrodynamic interaction between Enceladus and Saturn. The primary Alfvén wing is shown in blue, and the reflected Alfvén wings in magenta. The arrow indicates the corotation direction
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window. Casaletto JA, Zhao T, Yeung J, Lee A, Ansari A,






