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Two more of NASA's space telescopes got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar interloper that captured the world's attention in July 2025.
African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...
Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global ...
A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...
What if we told you that NASA, despite employing the best scientists in the country (and the world) still needs your help studying the universe. All you need ...
Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets crossing their stars’ faces. The model builds on a ...
Upcoming tests will continue to take RoboBall into outdoor environments, with the Robotics and Automation Design (RAD) Lab ...
Left: A large boulder moved by the Manakamana landslide; Top right: A panoramic view of the same landslide, which can be seen on the left side of the picture; Bottom right: A top-down view of the ...
In 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the first image of Earth from the Moon. This photograph showed Earth as a fragile ...
Nasa’s Perseverance Mars rover has spotted a bizarre helmet-shaped rock, shedding more light on how winds shape the Red Planet’s surface even today. The unusual “witch hat” or “helmet-shaped” rock ...
A US federal judge has ordered the effective closure of “Alligator Alcatraz”, a migrant detention centre in the Florida Everglades. Its name reflects the local wildlife of alligators, crocodiles and ...
Absolutely! You can check out websites like NASA’s Worldview for a broad look at the planet, or even watch live video streams ...