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Earth is the perfect planet for life as we know it! It orbits the Sun in the habitable zone, where planetary temperatures allow water to exist as a liquid. Scientists believe this is important beca...
For decades, we assumed galaxies came first.
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Alok Jha talks to meteorite-hunter Katherine Joy to discover why the icy continent is one of the best places on Earth to find them.
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“Essentially, superintelligence is going to be extremely hard for human beings to control...I don’t think we as a species have a good plan right now, but I think planetary intelligence could be par...
Pigeons can pinpoint their location hundreds of kilometers from their roosts and navigate home autonomously, only using smell, the sun, and even Earth’s magnetic field.
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In a secluded part of Antarctica – which is already devoid of much life – lies a small research station called Concordia. Living there is similar to living on another planet.
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Watch ESA’s Mars chief engineer Albert Haldemann explain the sterilisation process of one of the parachutes of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission and why it matters.
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Earth is full of surprises and some of them shape life every day. 🌍✨
In this episode, Austin Gonzalez from UNU-EHS asks our experts 5 surprising facts about our planet that can change how we see w..
Back from a mission to the moon, astronauts from Artemis II arrived at United Nations Headquarters with a message for humanity about our shared purpose on Earth.
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Our Cheops mission spotted something strange around the red star LHS 1903: a rocky planet orbiting far from its star.
That’s unexpected. Usually, rocky planets stay close in, while gas giants form...
We don't need to go to the Moon to know it, but it helps to be reminded.
Every mile further from Earth makes it more obvious: One forest. One ocean. One System. One home ground. Worth every effort...
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Artemis II marque une étape historique de l’exploration spatiale : pour la première fois depuis plus de 50 ans, des astronautes ont voyagé autou...
In 1972, the Apollo 17 crew captured the historic “Blue Marble” photo. Fifty‑four years later, astronauts aboard Artemis II have captured the first full‑Earth view taken by humans from deep space s...
En todo este vacío que nos rodea en el Universo, tenemos un oasis llamado TIERRA, en el que podemos existir y prosperar juntos 🌎🙌
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This episode of The Moonshot Podcast dives into the future of biology, exploring how to harness life's "tiny factories" to solve humanity's biggest challenges.
Host Astro Teller sits down with Br...
What if we could use biology to create living medicines, or self-healing bricks?
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