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After seeing Elon Musk send thousands of satellites into low Earth orbit, it’s natural to wonder why we can’t just…

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NASA has released the clearest image yet of Earth’s magnetospheric radiation belts. But the spacecraft that accomplished this feat wasn’t…

As far as the eye can see, there are reddish-brown rocks and no plants in sight. It is a frigid,…

For the first time, an international team of scientists rock it is Earth’s mantleThis layer, just below the crust, makes…

Shackleton Crater on the south pole of the moon is an area in permanent shadowLROC/Shadowcam/NASA/KARI/ASU A backup of Earth-based life…

Deep inside the Earth lies a solid metal ball that spins independently of the Earth, spinning on its axis, like…

This story is part of our “Cosmology” series, which confronts the incredible vastness of the universe and our place in…

 Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes some crazy ideas for how to tinker with the universe and…

The planets are doing a gravitational dance around the sunShutterstock/Johan Swanepoel Mars’ gravitational pull could be strong enough to shake…