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The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...

How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may ...

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China launches 4 times in 4 days, boosting megaconstellation and surveillance assets China launched four missions in four days, accelerating its record-setting launch cadence while expanding its ...