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Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier made history on his third day as a NASA intern. The teen was assigned to examine the variation in the brightness of stars captured by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in the Goddard Space Flight Center. He ended up discovering a planet during the assignment. This happened last summer, but NASA only announced the achievement this week after his findings […]
More bad news for Pluto: About 13 years after it was demoted to a dwarf planet, the celestial body is now facing an “atmospheric collapse”—at least, that what researchers believe. According to a recent study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, experts predict Pluto’s frigid atmosphere will vanish by 2030. The study cites 28 years worth of data […]
Scientists have confirmed in Nature Geoscience on Monday that methane gas was detected on Mars inside the 96-mile-wide depression near the Martian equator known as Gale Crater. The intrigue surrounding the presence of methane—a gas emitted by living creatures on Earth—could suggest that there are signs of life on the Red Planet. We may be one step closer to cracking the Mars methane mystery. […]
A teenage girl’s mind was completely blown when she learned a basic fact about our planet. Twitter user @LoveMahalHappy posted a now-viral video that captured the very moment her sister learned that humans live on the surface of Earth and not inside it. “I thought we were living inside!” she shouts, visibly shook. “Oh my gosh. I thought […]
