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Eric Philips speaks to ExplorersWeb about his three and a half days orbiting the Earth, including how they slept and what ...

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

The Tara Polar Station, a $23 million research vessel with a crew of 12, will drift across the Arctic ice to enable better ...

The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

A new analysis by UC Boulder geologists suggests the ancient Mars landscape was formed by falling precipitation, including ...

After over seven months in orbit, astronauts Don Pettit, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner have returned to Earth aboard the ...

SpaceX tested the Plug and Plaser device for the first time in space last year on the Polaris Dawn mission, which was most ...

A blockchain entrepreneur, a cinematographer, a polar adventurer and a robotics researcher plan to fly around Earth’s poles ...

A new kind of microscope called ELVIS is heading to the International Space Station to change how we study life in space. By ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet orbiting at a 90-degree angle around two brown dwarfs—marking the first evidence of ...