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The field, dubbed the “polar wind,” explains how Earth’s atmosphere escapes easily and rapidly above the north and south poles, and may have played a role in shaping our planet’s thin upper atmosphere. Scientists say it’s as vital to our planet as gravity …

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The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft is set for a Mercury flyby late on Wednesday (Sept. 4), but thruster issues mean the probe faces a lengthy delay before entering orbit around the solar system’s innermost planet.

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A nearby galaxy is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxy Messier 33 (M33), also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is the third-largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, after the Andromeda …

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a small white rocket launches into a night sky. An Arianespace Vega rocket launches 12 satellites to orbit on Oct. 8, 2023. (Image credit: Arianespace).

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Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control to ask about the bizarre noises heard emanating from Starliner’s speakers while the spacecraft is currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS). “There’s a strange noise …

Phys.Org

A recent study in one of the most pristine spawning grounds for a Minnesota fish has found a half-century gap between successful broods, and that number’s climbing. That’s according to new research on the bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) from …

www.colorado.edu

Scientists have traveled to the edges of the solar system, virtually, at least, to capture the most accurate measurements to date of the faint glow that permeates the universe—a phenomenon known as the cosmic optical background.

Fox News

Astronaut Butch Wilmore first reported the pulsating sound coming from a speaker inside the spacecraft to Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, just days before it was set to leave the station and return to Earth on autopilot.

Smithsonian

Studying how the viruses, which do not infect humans, adapted to previous major temperature shifts could hold clues to how modern viruses will react to the current climate change. Margherita Bassi. Daily Correspondent. September 3, 2024 7:00 a.m. …

NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

The pre-dawn hours will feature six planets. Keep an eye on Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn in the hours before sunrise. The planets always appear lying along the ecliptic, which is the plane of our solar system.