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Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama Who would imagine that you could take photographs of shockwaves? NASA, that’s who. Ten years of research and development went into the picture you see here, which is a colored composite image of pair of supersonic planes flying under strict parameters in

Source: Sunny Skyz The world is a greener place than it was 20 years ago, and China and India can take a majority of the credit. A new study from NASA shows that the two countries with the world’s biggest populations are leading the increase in greening on land. The effect stems mainly from

Source: Good News Network The world is literally a greener place than it was 20 years ago, and the data from NASA satellites has revealed a counterintuitive source for much of this new foliage: China and India. This surprising new study shows that the two emerging countries with the world’s

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News for Students On the far outskirts of the solar system lies a zone of very-distant objects revolving around our sun. It’s the Kuiper (KY-per) Belt. And this past New Year’s Day, a NASA spacecraft got a good snapshot of a snowman-shaped object there.

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News The results are in: Ultima Thule, the distant Kuiper Belt object that got a close visit from the New Horizons spacecraft on New Year’s Day, looks like two balls stuck together. “What you are seeing is the first contact binary ever explored by a