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NASA spots subtle shift that’s literally making Earth darker
NASA has confirmed that a subtle but measurable change in how our planet reflects sunlight is under way, and it is literally making Earth darker. The shift is small in percentage terms, but it is large enough to alter how much solar energy the climate system stores,
Social media users shared a cosmic claim about an alleged secret NASA document named "Project Anchor" leaking online in 2024.
The space rock, known as "2026 AJ" and 40 feet in diameter, is hurtling toward our planet at around 20,500 miles per hour.
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NASA just parked a spacecraft 1 million miles from Earth, and almost no one’s talking about it
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has officially reached the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1) after a three-and-a-half-month journey through space. The spacecraft is now poised to begin its mission: mapping the outermost boundary of the heliosphere,
Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway stars. From its perch a million miles from Earth, Webb’s huge gold-coated mirror collects more light than any other telescope put into space.
A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.
It is true that astronomers discovered "a relatively short-lived quasi-satellite of Earth" and dubbed it 2025 PN7, according to a paper published by the American Astronomical Society in September 2025, which also mentioned the existence of six other known quasi-satellites, also called "quasi-moons," currently orbiting alongside Earth.
A recent photo from NASA's Curiosity rover gives an idea of what Mars would look like under skies that resemble our own on Earth. Take a look.