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A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to create the first 3D atmospheric map of an exoplanet. The fiery WASP-18b, a massive “ultra-hot Jupiter,” revealed striking temperature ...

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Discover why Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is the closest point to space, despite Mount Everest's greater height above sea level ...

Far above your head, in the atmosphere between Earth and outer space, an invisible process is occurring. The increasing ...

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats ...

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NASA astronaut Nicole Stott reveals whether sex in space is physically possible and what really happens when gravity isn’t ...

A software developer from Iceland has successfully hacked a satellite's flight computer to run a port of the infamous 1993 ...