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It took the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission just 13 minutes to reach low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in February 2024. It took a network of scientists at NASA and research institutions around the world more than 20 years to carefully craft and test the novel instrumen...

Published: 12:07 EDT, 2 April 2024 | Updated: 12:52 EDT, 2 April 2024 A piece of metal came crashing through a home in Florida that is believed to be from a 5,800-pound battery pallet discarded by the International Space Station (ISS).Naples homeowner Alejandro Otero was on vacation when he received a call from his ...

Published: 10:03 EDT, 19 March 2024 | Updated: 11:38 EDT, 19 March 2024 Eerie new drone footage has for the first time revealed the extent of the damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant 13 years on from its meltdown. The plant's operators, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, or TEPCO, released 12 photos from ...