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As NASA's budget shrinks, Europe doubles down on Earth science: 'Climate change is the defining challenge of our generation'
Despite geopolitical tension and national budget woes, one message rang out loud and clear at Living Planet Symposium 2025: ...
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Scientists find Uranus is surprisingly warm, heating up the case for a new planetary mission
Scientists have found that Uranus is emitting its own internal heat — even more than it receives from sunlight — and this ...
Trump’s NASA budget could cede solar system to China, scientists warn
There is a fully tenured NASA spacecraft named Mars Odyssey that has been faithfully orbiting the Red Planet since October ...
New interstellar comet will keep a safe distance from Earth, NASA says
NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...
NASA finds new interstellar comet passing through solar system
NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...
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Mars Sample Return under threat as Trump budget slashes NASA science
With Trump’s new budget cutting NASA science programs, the Mars Sample Return mission could be replaced by a private-sector ...
A comet from an entirely different solar system is flying through ours, NASA says
Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...
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NASA studies Earth’s deep-sea volcanoes to uncover alien life on Jupiter’s moon
With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.
‘Will keep safe distance from Earth’: Nasa spots interstellar comet in solar system; shares picture
NASA has discovered the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, located 4.5 au from the Sun, offering a rare glimpse into celestial ...
NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an 'interstellar visitor' — and it has a new name
Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.
Our solar system has a new mysterious visitor—what is it?
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...