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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's ...
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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.
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What Is Earth's Atmosphere? Everything You Need to Know
It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...
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Invisible electric field discovered surrounding Earth is "as crucial as gravity"
According to scientists, this ambipolar electric field is thought to be just as crucial to Earth as both gravity and ...
The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
NASA makes first successful detection of Earth’s ambipolar electric field
For over half a century, scientists suspected a quiet but powerful electric field might be influencing Earth’s upper ...