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Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA's AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers ...

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On Monday, Aldrich took his students to the MU’s CAVE – Computer Assisted Virtual Environment – for a virtual and augmented ...

For the first time, scientists have been able to map the atmosphere of WASP-121b in 3D and what they found sounds like ...

Hail will finally get the attention it deserves this spring, with the world's largest field campaign ever devoted to studying the destructive phenomena.