NASA’s $ 800 million Mars lander is in an energy crisis. InSight, which landed on a Martian plain called Elysium Planitia in 2018, detected more than 500 earthquakes on Mars, felt more …
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If star-jumping aliens ever visited our solar system, Saturn is probably the planet they would remember. The seven giant rings that surround its equator make Saturn the most distinct planet orbiting the …
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Each planet in the Solar System has its own idiosyncrasies, but Uranus is truly one of a kind. Not only is it tilted sideways so its axis of rotation is practically parallel …
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Just as Earth has spectacular auroras, so other planets in the Solar System have their own versions of the atmospheric light show. Jupiter, in fact, has the most powerful auroras in the …
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Ultimately, energy independence in today’s world is an illusion in the age of globalization because the hyper-connectedness of the market makes it impossible. Still, it’s an endless battle cry that ends up …
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On October 19, 2017, the first detected interstellar object flew past Earth on its way out of the Solar System. Less than two years later, a second object was detected, an easily …
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A chunk of meteorite found in the sands of the Algerian desert could be a chunk of a baby planet that never made it. According to an in-depth analysis of the rock’s …
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For the first time, a hurricane has been detected in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. In 2014, the satellites recorded a huge swirl of plasma spreading into the magnetosphere that lasted for hours …
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Although its main mission is to look at the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will seize any opportunity to send data back to Earth. The planet Venus represents precisely one of those …
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The amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface has been fluctuating for decades, and a new study supports the idea that human activity is to blame. In the late 1980s, researchers first noticed …
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