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NASA's TRACERS mission blasted off July 23 on a Falcon 9 rocket with three other small agency satellites that will act as technology demonstrators to monitor space weather.

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NISAR, a joint mission of NASA and ISRO set to launch on July 30, will be able to see shifts in the landscape smaller than a centimeter to give warning of potential natural disasters.

By Josh Dinner Published
NASA will not host the U.S. government's primary climate assessment reports on its website after all, despite a White House claim that they would be available via the space agency.

By Daisy Dobrijevic Published
If NASA must pull back, Europe is ready to step up — and do so with open arms.

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As the sun grew hotter, so did Mars, prompting much of its atmospheric carbon dioxide to rain out and ultimately get locked up in rocks.

By Joanna Thompson Published
Climate scientists are gathering on YouTube for 100 hours to talk about the importance of weather research amid White House funding cuts.

By Paul Sutter Published
There is a set of very special numbers, known as the fundamental constants of nature, that cannot be explained. Where do they come from?

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The physical constants of the universe appear to favor the existence of life. So why are we here?

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Scientists have found a neutrino that could come from a gamma-ray burst, an active black hole or a collision between a cosmic ray and photons in the cosmic microwave background.
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