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NASA astronaut Anil Menon and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot installed a replacement high-speed antenna on the outside of the International Space Station on Aug. 25, finishing a repair the pair had…

NASA said on Aug. 25 that Pandora, a small satellite launched in January, has finished commissioning and started taking science observations of exoplanets and the stars they orbit. Pandora reached…

Four researchers say they have extracted a planet-circling pressure wave directly from Mars weather data for the first time, using more than one Martian year of readings from the pressure sensor on…

The carbon that Amazon forests take in and the water they give off have been moving further out of step for four decades, an analysis of 40 years of satellite data published Aug. 22 in Nature…

Researchers reconstructed a December 2024 solar eruption from the records of 17 spacecraft across the inner solar system and found a component that traveled toward Earth invisible from the Sun-Earth…

A single glancing impact by a 320-meter asteroid can account for both the 10-kilometer-wide depression at Deimos's south pole and the fine debris covering the whole 12-kilometer moon, according to…

Radar waves at a wavelength of 3.5 centimeters penetrate no more than about 32 meters into Europa's surface, according to a bound reported by Tunhui Xie, Jean-Luc Margot and six co-authors from 13…

Microbes carried to the Moon on astronauts and their equipment could stay alive in shaded ground around the lunar south pole, NASA scientists report in a modeling study published Aug. 19 in Science…

NASA and Katalyst Space will not attempt to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the agency announced Aug. 19, citing an ongoing attitude-control problem on Katalyst's LINK…

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the crater left when a spent Falcon 9 upper stage struck the Moon on Aug. 5. The crater measures about 60 feet across. The orbiter imaged the site…

Ask how long it takes a rainforest to grow back and the honest answer has always been slippery. You can count the trees. You can weigh the carbon. But a mature tropical forest is not just a stand of…

For decades the recipe for an aurora seemed to demand something Mars simply does not have: a planet-sized magnetic field. Earth's aurora is fed by one. So is Jupiter's, and Saturn's. Mars lost its…