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"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

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Exhaust from lunar landers drifts across the moon and contaminates ultra-cold polar craters that are rich in ancient ice and ...

For example, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained on thousands of radar echoes can recognize the unique spatial signature of a small metallic fragment, even when its signal is partially masked ...

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New research suggests Earth’s water came from sources other than meteorites, challenging long-standing theories on planetary ...

From the deck of a ship or the window of a plane, it feels obvious that “down” points toward Earth and “up” points toward the ...

The Shenzhou-20 crew of Chen Dong, Wang Jie and Chen Zhongrui have landed back on Earth after a suspected piece of space junk left them stranded on China's Tiangong space station. When you purchase ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.