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Space.com

These vortices could be important for understanding weather patterns in the upper atmosphere that impact the entire planet, as well as “buoyancy waves” that travel all the way up to space. NASA’s …

Space.com

A visualisation of the Trappist-1b exoplanet. The Trappist-1b exoplanet is a rocky world that orbits very close to its parent star. (Image credit: NASA …

CNN

The waxing crescent moon is seen from Panama City on March 25. Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter …

SpaceNews

WASHINGTON — Kathy Lueders, the NASA official who oversees the International Space Station and commercial cargo and crew programs, will retire from the agency at the end of April and be succeeded by her deputy. NASA announced March 27 that Lueders …

Phys.Org

Lead author Karen Heeter takes a core sample from an old mountain hemlock near Crater Lake, Oregon, where at least one tree dated to the 1300s. Credit: Grant Harley/University of Idaho. In summer 2021, a stunning heat wave swept western North America, …

Smithsonian

If you’re looking to check off sightings of several planets in the solar system, you’re in luck: The planets have aligned. This week, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Uranus will all appear in a small patch of the night sky. Though the array will be …

WIRED

Northern fulmars and Cory’s shearwaters are masters of the sea and air, gliding above the waves and plunging into the water to snag fish, squid, and crustaceans. But because humans have so thoroughly corrupted the ocean with microplastics—at least 11 …

Reuters

March 27 (Reuters) – Glass beads spawned in violent impacts from space rocks on the lunar surface have been found to have water trapped inside, offering what scientists describe as a potential reservoir of this precious resource for future human …

OPB News

In this video still collected by a remote-operated vehicle named Jason with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in June 2022, superheated water and nutrients from a hydrothermal vent off the Oregon coast supports a wide variety of life.

Science News

A pair of merging neutron stars, like those shown in this artist’s illustration, could have both shaken spacetime and emitted a burst of bright radio waves. Astronomers thought this was possible, but hadn’t seen convincing evidence of it until now.