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Earth may have lost the Sun’s protective shield millions of years ago

NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky ...

Earth's Protective Shield May Have Disappeared Millions of Years Ago, NASA Study Finds

NASA-funded research suggests dense interstellar clouds may have compressed the heliosphere inside Earth's orbit millions of ...

NASA’s giant space ‘starshade’ could help ground telescopes photograph another Earth

NASA researchers are developing a hybrid observatory that would pair a giant telescope on Earth with a 99-meter starshade ...

In 2006, NASA and French space agency CNES launched a satellite in a joint mission to probe the properties of Earth's thin clouds and aerosols

In 2006, NASA and French Space Agency CNES launched a satellite in a joint mission to probe the properties of Earth's thin clouds and aerosols. CALIPSO studied clouds and airborne particles from orbit ...

NASA's PUNCH mission can now accurately predict when solar storms will hit Earth

In March 2025, NASA launched the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission in an effort to better understand solar weather. It consists of a constellation of four microsatellites ...
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60 years ago NASA took the first ever photo of Earth from the moon

Snapped on August 23, 1966, by the uncrewed Lunar Orbiter 1, the photo’s legacy lives on in the breathtaking images of Earth ...
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NASA finds Earth microbes could survive on the Moon

NASA scientists found that microbes brought by astronauts could survive in cold, shadowed niches around the Moon’s South Pole ...