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Watch the world choke on CO2 in eerie NASA videos of manmade emissions
By Sascha Pare published
The animations highlight emissions from different human and natural sources, with the main contribution coming from the burning of fossil fuels.

NASA's Curiosity rover snaps extremely detailed 'postcard' of Martian landscape after waking up from a 'brain-boosting nap'
By Harry Baker published
The new panorama snapped by NASA's Curiosity rover combines photos from two different times of day to create a highly detailed image of the Red Planet.

Life may already exist on the moon — and NASA's next mission could find it
By Leonard David published
Astronauts on NASA's Artemis moon missions might look for signs of life in shadowed polar craters — life that could have traveled with people from Earth.

How many people have died in space?
By Donavyn Coffey published
Five missions have been fatal to space travelers.

NASA concludes first-ever public UFO briefing. What did we learn?
By Brett Tingley published
The government is investigating hundreds of military UFO reports, but only a small fraction are truly "anomalous."

NASA uncovers shattered remains of Japanese lunar lander that mysteriously disappeared on April 25
By Joanna Thompson published
Japan's private Hakuto-R spacecraft broke into at least four large pieces of debris, according to new images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

15 of the weirdest things we have launched into space
By Harry Baker published
From a dummy-driven Tesla, to a giant disco ball, to U.S. presidents' hair, here are some of the weirdest things humans have put into space.

NASA spots sign of El Niño from space: 'If it's a big one, the globe will see record warming'
By Hannah Osborne published
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite recorded Kelvin waves moving eastward across the Pacific — a phenomenon often considered a precursor to El Niño.

Weird balloon circling the Southern Hemisphere isn't a spy craft — it's NASA's newest telescope
By Harry Baker published
An enormous balloon spotted circling the Southern Hemisphere is actually SuperBIT, a NASA telescope that is capturing Hubble-quality data from the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
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