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Earth Day 2024: Witness our changing planet in 12 incredible satellite images
By Meredith Garofalo published
To commemorate Earth Day, enjoy these 12 NOAA satellite images that showcase the different ways this critical technology helps scientists keep an eye on our planet.

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact
By Robert Lea published
On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health. The interstellar explorer is back in touch after five months of sending back nonsense data.

Satellites watch as 4th global coral bleaching event unfolds (image)
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
Satellites are tracking in real time as multiple major coral reefs around the world get paler due to warming sea temperatures in the fourth-ever global bleaching event.

New trailer for 'Star Wars Outlaws' video game proclaims a golden age for the underworld (video)
By Jeff Spry published
A new story trailer has dropped for Ubisoft's new "Star Wars Outlaws" video game.

The Earth Day 2024 Google doodle is a climate change reminder
By Monisha Ravisetti published
For Earth Day this year, the Google doodle is highlighting areas of our planet it sees itself in.

China's new reusable rocket aces key engine tests
By Andrew Jones published
China has made progress on a powerful rocket engine to power its new reusable rockets that are expected to launch the nation's planned crewed moon missions.

James Webb Space Telescope documentary returns to IMAX theaters this week for Earth Day. Watch exclusive clips here (video)
By Jeff Spry published
New James Webb Space Telescope documentary, "Deep Sky," returns to IMAX screens for Earth Day. Watch two exclusive clips here at Space.com.

Happy Earth Day 2024! NASA picks 6 new airborne missions to study our changing planet
By Meredith Garofalo published
Six newly selected NASA airborne campaigns will focus on a range of studies focusing on Earth and its changing climate.

How could life survive on tidally locked planets?
By Paul Sutter published
Space mysteries Astronomers are especially interested in the habitability of these kinds of planets, which always face their star with the same side, because they are incredibly common in the universe.

Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus is able to support life − my research team is working out how to detect extraterrestrial cells there
By Fabian Klenner published
As a planetary scientist and astrobiologist who studies ice grains from Enceladus, I'm interested in whether there is life on this or other icy moons. I also want to understand how scientists like me could detect it.
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