SpaceX plans to launch two Earth-imaging satellites today (Feb. 4), building out Maxar Technologies' sharp-eyed WorldView Legion constellation.

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They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

But did you know that a real-life Paatal Lok exists? There is a place deep beneath the Earth’s surface that feels like another world. This mysterious location closely resembles the mythical ...

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Then artificial intelligence—combined with satellite images—lent a hand. Last year, journalists with the environmental-news ...

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Regina G. Barber is a co-host of Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. Barber completed her PhD in physics at Washington State University with a focus in astrophysics, studying globular cluster systems.

Once it had returned to Earth samples of the dust were sent to laboratories around the world, including in the UK, to be studied by scientists. Now, analysis has revealed that traces of ancient ...