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Fireball may have been an orbiting 'minimoon'
Dec 2, 2019Scientists have discovered new evidence of a temporary moon burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.
'Forbidden' planet found in Neptunian Desert
May 29, 2019Astronomers have found a planet with an atmosphere in a region that was thought to be hostile to such worlds.
Spectacular fireball explodes over Siberia
VIDEO Apr 11, 2019Russia has seen more than its fair share of space rocks exploding in the Earth's atmosphere in recent months.
Mars 'mushrooms' debate sparks controversy
Mar 26, 2019The claim that Curiosity has photographed fungi growing on Mars has been met with a high degree of skepticism.
Huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere
Mar 18, 2019The blast, which occurred in December over the Bering Sea, went largely unnoticed due to its remote location.
NASA cooks up an alien atmosphere on Earth
Mar 16, 2019Scientists at JPL have been working to simulate the atmospheric conditions found on 'hot Jupiter' planets.
Earth's atmosphere extends beyond the Moon
Feb 24, 2019A new study has revealed that our planet's atmosphere extends further in to space than was previously believed.
New mission to explore origins of the cosmos
VIDEO Feb 16, 2019NASA is planning to launch a new near-infrared space observatory that will collect data on 300 million galaxies.
Bursts of light detected in Earth's atmosphere
Feb 12, 2019A Russian satellite has picked up mysterious 'explosions of light' in our planet's upper atmosphere.
'Super blood wolf moon' is coming this month
VIDEO Jan 11, 2019A lunar eclipse with a rather unusual name will be visible in the Western Hemisphere on January 20th.
China and Russia modify Earth's atmosphere
Dec 17, 2018The two world powers have reportedly been working together on a series of controversial experiments.
Closest ever photograph of the Sun revealed
Dec 14, 2018NASA's groundbreaking Parker Solar Probe has taken a close-up shot from inside the Sun's corona.
Voyager 2 has now entered interstellar space
VIDEO Dec 10, 2018NASA has confirmed that the probe has become the second spacecraft ever to leave the heliosphere.
NASA's InSight probe successfully lands on Mars
Nov 26, 2018After a harrowing descent through the Martian atmosphere, the probe has finally reached its destination.
NASA prepares for '7 minutes of terror' on Mars
VIDEO Nov 24, 2018The space agency's InSight lander will be descending 80 miles through the Martian atmosphere on Monday.
WWII bombs sent shockwaves to edge of space
Oct 1, 2018It turns out that the devastating bombing raids of World War II damaged more than just targets on the ground.
Planet is so hot that even metal evaporates
Aug 16, 2018The extrasolar planet known as Kelt-9b is so hot that its atmosphere contains vaporized iron and titanium.
Probe to study solar system's protective bubble
Jun 4, 2018NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Helium detected on 'super-Neptune' exoplanet
May 3, 2018For the first time ever, scientists have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around a distant star.
Uranus smells like rotten eggs, say scientists
Apr 23, 2018Hydrogen sulfide, which gives rotten eggs their smell, has been discovered in the seventh planet's atmosphere.
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