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October 11, 2019

This pressure was recently measured by scientists in totality for the first time—and it was found to be greater th...

September 11, 2019

In 2019, wildfires have already burned 2.5 million acres in Alaska in an extreme fire season driven by high temperatures, whi...

July 11, 2019

The unexpected presence of a disk of material so close to a black hole offers a unique opportunity to test Albert Einstein's ...

February 12, 2019

If the second crater is confirmed as the result of a meteorite impact, it will be the 22nd largest impact crater found o...

December 18, 2018

New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observ...

June 4, 2018

The Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, launched in 2015 and has helped map the amount of water in soils worldwide...

May 25, 2018

Although the surface of Mars is inhospitable to known forms of life today, there is evidence that in the distant past, the Ma...

May 17, 2018

A study finds that Earth's wet land areas are getting wetter and dry areas are getting drier due to a variety of factors...

May 1, 2018

In 1996, shortly after arriving at Jupiter, Galileo made a surprising discovery: Ganymede had its own magnetic field

January 12, 2018

At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a landslide potential map was generated by the global Landslide...

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