But in the early 1980s, Dennis Hope, who had been unemployed for around a year, believed he had found a loophole. The Outer ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

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Astrobiologist Kevin Hand's search for life on other planets is centered on one of Jupiter's ice moons. EXPLORER MOMENTS; ... 41, a National Geographic emerging explorer.

During the 2012 DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition to the deepest part of the ocean, scientists spotted fuzzy mats that may be communities of bacteria clinging to the rocks.

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NASA launched two 12-inch gold-plated copper disks filled with the sounds of children's laughter, heartbeats, and bird calls.

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Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which launched in 2020. Tianwen 3 will be a Mars sample return mission, launching in ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now.. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context ...

In the oceans of a moon hundreds of millions of miles from the sun, something fishy may be alive—right now. Below its icy crust Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to host a global ocean up to a ...