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In 2020, scientists took more than a kilo of moon rock and soil back to Earth for testing.
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2022 was a year full of scientific discoveries and the dawn of the JWST. But Hubble's still going after 32 years. Here's the amazing proof!
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."
Leaving Hubble in the dust, JWST has officially seen a galaxy from just 320 million years after the Big Bang: at just 2.3% its current age.
The very dust that blocks our view of the distant, luminous objects in the Universe is responsible for our entire existence.
Compared to Earth, Mars is small, cold, dry, and lifeless. But 3.4 billion years ago, a killer asteroid caused a Martian megatsunami.
It is humanity's biggest step yet into the Solar System.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies gobble up whatever matter ventures too close, becoming active. Here's how they work.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Cleaning it up could have a quick impact on global warming.
We're used to scientists telling us about the math and physics behind astronomical events. But what does studying space make us feel?
Astronomers have been looking for radio waves sent by a distant civilization for more than 60 years.
All across the Universe, planets come in a wide variety of sizes, masses, compositions, and temperatures. And most have rain and snow.
Thanks to a couple of rovers, we know Mars was once blue.
The largest hazardous asteroid found in the last 8 years showcases a little-known class of planet-killers. And we're woefully unprepared.
In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don't live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here's how.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
The DART mission tested whether it's possible to deflect an asteroid by crashing something into it.
With its first view of a protoplanetary disk around a newly forming star, the JWST reveals how alone individual stellar systems truly are.
It's the very closest stars to us that hold the key to unlocking the possibilities for life in star systems all throughout the Universe.
It could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors.