The Carruthers Geocoronal Observatory, a NASA satellite built by researchers from BU and the University of Illinois-Urbana ...
Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's equatorial bulge. This bulge makes points near the equator farther from the ...
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Earth's Biggest Visitors From Outer Space

When we think of asteroids, we think of the big one that changed the Earth's climate, and killed off the dinosaurs. But the ...
UW–Madison researchers have uncovered a flaw in the way that rover tests are evaluated on Earth, using computer simulation.
While helium-3 is exceedingly rare on Earth, it’s plentiful on the Moon. But getting it won’t be simple. The race to harvest ...
Bengaluru startup Akashalabdhi develops inflatable space habitats, aiming to revolutionize off-Earth real estate and ...
From the mysteries of our own planet to the vast reaches of the cosmos, music has long captured humanity’s fascination with ...