This image, taken December 6, 2011, combines two separate views of the giant asteroid Vesta obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.…
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Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, starts down the ladder of the Lunar Module (LM)…
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Echo II is shown here undergoing a tensile stress test in a dirigible hanger at Weekesville, North Carolina. A dirigible…
This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It…
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In 2004, an international team of astronomers had, for the first time, observed a stellar "survivor" emerge from a double…
So much of our modern technology is at risk from space weather, including satellites, communications and power grids.
Schematic illustration of the invisible magnetic field lines generated by the Earth, represented as a dipole magnet field.
