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A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a ...
Earth Day falls on April 22 each year but is not a federally recognized holiday, according to USA TODAY.
This marks the first time scientists deliberately fermented food in space, opening up new possibilities for future astronauts ...
The International Space Station National Laboratory just launched "Between a Rocket and a Hard Space," a brand-new podcast ...
Astronomy on MSN7d
Earth as a planet
Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.
YR4 won't hit Earth, but scientists now estimate a 4% chance it could strike the Moon, possibly affecting space missions.
"The exercise enabled us to estimate the number of terrestrial species of life on Earth, including all the numbers unknown to ...
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
Water is essential to life, yet its true origin on Earth still stirs debate. Scientists have long wondered whether it came ...
2024 YR4 may not make catastrophic history, but it did set a new record for the JWST as the smallest object ever targeted by ...
The crew will observe Earth's polar regions 430 kilometers above the surface, allowing the Crew Dragon Resilience to travel ...
Earth Day 2025's theme "Our Power, Our Planet" encourages renewable energy adoption, with Clackamas County aiming for carbon ...