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NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown straight through the Sun's outer atmosphere at more than 690,000 kilometres per hour—the fastest any…
A spacecraft hurtling through the Sun's crown has shattered the speed record for human engineering, reaching velocities that would traverse the globe in minutes.
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A tiny British sensor could buy the planet hours to prepare for solar storms that routinely cripple power grids and satellites.
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Buzz Aldrin called the Moon "magnificent desolation." He spent the decades after it showing how much he meant the second word
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The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Temperatures on Mercury’s sunlit surface can reach 430 degrees Celsius—yet inside polar craters where sunlight has never fallen, spacecraft…
In March 2025, astronomers confirmed 128 new moons around Saturn in a single day, nearly doubling its count to 274
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How did a country smaller than West Virginia go from one of the worst deforestation rates on Earth to doubling its forest in a single…
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