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In late August 2025, at Edwards Air Force Base in California, pilot Kirt Stallings sat suited up and ready to go inside a transport vehicle, mere moments from boarding NASA’s high-altitude ER-2 aircraft. Through the window, ground crews readied the long-winged plane for a geological mapping mission as part of the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx). What is it? GEMx …

Earth’s surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks of Earth’s crust. This movement may be why life exists here. Earth is the only known planet with plate tectonics and the only known planet with life. Most scientists think …

But whereas this radial velocity technique is, for now, limited to ground-based observatories and can only observe one star at the time, the transit technique can be employed in space telescopes such as the French Corot (2006-14) and Nasa’s Kepler (2009-18) and Tess (2018-present) missions. Between them, space telescopes have detected thousands of exoplanets in all their diversity, taking advantage …

Earth May Not Be So Special After All, New Study Finds  SciTechDaily Most exoplanets that we thought were wet are probably dry inside  Earth.com Source link

“Humanity Is Blind To Danger”: Asteroids Concealed Near Venus Could Strike Earth Every 12,000 Years With Zero Time To React  Energy Reporters Nearly invisible asteroids around Venus could threaten Earth — but don’t worry, not for a while  Space “Venus Hides Asteroid Army Aimed At Earth”: 20 Coorbital Space Rocks Threaten Planet While Scientists Fear 460 Foot City Killers Orbit Invisibly Forever  Rude …

A new kind of delivery system is being set up in low Earth orbit. Inversion Space, a relatively small space startup founded in 2021, is prepping its space-based delivery vehicle for flight. The reusable spacecraft is designed to drop off cargo from space to Earth on a tight schedule, building a constellation of on-demand vehicles parked in orbit. This week, …

Quasi-moon 2023 FW13 is very small and dark, so it reflects very little sunlight. Its orbit is unusual, as it drifts far from Earth and blends in with the background stars. Modern sky surveys, like Pan-STARRS and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, have only recently become sensitive enough to spot such faint objects. As a result, 2023 FW13 remained hidden for decades, …

Save This Critical Stock Watchlist As The Trump Admin Invests In Rare Earth Metals  Barchart.com Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GameStop, USA Rare Earth, Applied Materials, Zillow and more  CNBC This rare-earth company may be the next Trump administration investment  MarketWatch USA Rare Earth hits all-time high after report miner in close talks with White House  Reuters USA Rare Earth Takes Off On …

Watch from multiple locations as a Starlink satellite reenters Earth’s atmosphere, burning up over California, on September 25, 2025. Currently, there are 1 to 2 Starlink satellites falling back to Earth each day. Soon there will be more. Starlink satellites are falling It might not be long before you look up and see a fiery, slow-moving object streaking across your …

USA Rare Earth hits all-time high after report miner in close talks with White House  Reuters Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GameStop, USA Rare Earth, Applied Materials, Zillow and more  CNBC This rare-earth company may be the next Trump administration investment  MarketWatch USA Rare Earth stock jumps 10% after CEO says in talks with Trump admin – report  Seeking Alpha USA Rare Earth …