Colorado astronaut discusses adjustments after returning to Earth
An astronaut from Colorado is readjusting to life on Earth after spending 235 days in space, two months longer than planned.
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New Clues from Voyager 2 Reveal Uranus May Be More Mysterious Than Originally Thought
Reexamination of data collected nearly 40 years ago by Voyager 2 has revealed that what's been believed about Uranus could be ...
Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft detected an unexpected phenomenon in the environment around the planet Uranus in 1986. Years ...
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Unveiling the Sun’s Secret Twisters: Magnetic Vortices at the Poles
Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...
Swirling polar vortices likely exist on the sun, new research finds
Like the Earth, the sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science ...
Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
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SpaceX rocket launches Koreasat-6A satellite, lands Falcon 9 booster on record-tying 23rd flight (video)
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the KoreaSat-6A telecom satellite from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida ...
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Scientists propose shocking new theory for origin of the Moon
For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...
Why does everything look flat even though the Earth is round?
Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...
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Supermassive black holes prefer to eat from wobbly plates
Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...
Astronaut’s photo shows Earth as you’ve never seen it before
But the photograph, captured from the International Space Station (ISS ... Pettit added: “Visible are circular star trails ...