Heading into space means leaving Earth's gravity behind. Astronauts floating around on the International Space Station might look like they're having fun in the weightless…
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It was just a couple of days ago that NASA announced something pretty exciting about Mars. Its Curiosity rover had detected shockingly high levels of…
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NASA's Mars missions have provided mankind with a wealth of knowledge about our dusty orange neighbor, but signs of life have been hard to come…
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There's a space race happening right now. It's not between the United States and Russia, or any nations at all, for that matter, but it's…
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As we creep closer to the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, NASA is doing its best to drum up support for a return…
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We're now just one month away from the 50th anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, and owners of some seriously sought-after space…
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Mars isn't exactly known for being a cloudy place. It's dry, dusty, and barren, but the planet does indeed have a bit of cloud cover.…
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As NASA and other organizations begin to lay the groundwork for crewed missions to places other than an orbiting space station or even the Moon,…
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NASA's Mars 2020 mission will be its most ambitious trip to the Red Planet yet. The Mars 2020 rover is absolutely packed with the latest…
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been orbiting the space rock known as Bennu since the start of the year. It caught up with the asteroid in…
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Like everything else in the universe, galaxies are born, live, and ultimately die, and thanks to incredibly powerful tools like the Hubble Space Telescope, we…
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When you're planning on taking a trip it pays to plan ahead, and one of the first things you should do is check the weather…
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NASA plans to return humans to the Moon within the next five years. That's a tall order and, while many people remain skeptical that the…
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Astronomers eager to observe bizarre visitors to our neck of the Solar System were in for a real treat late last month as the rare…
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Mankind seems destined to one day set foot on Mars. NASA and other space agencies around the world are already making big plans for sending…
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has a habit of providing us with some downright gorgeous views of deep space, but its latest snapshot might actually be…
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For scientists studying the history of human evolution, determining when certain changes happened and what may have prompted those changes are very important questions to…
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Building a structure anywhere other than Earth is something that has never been done before... at least by mankind. We all like to imagine a…
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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope may be dead, but that doesn't mean that the wealth of data it gathered doesn't still hold some untold surprises. A…
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Back in March, the Trump administration declared that it was directing NASA to send humans back to the Moon no later than 2024. That's an…
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Earth isn't the only place that "quakes." Rocky planets and moons regularly experience similar movements, and faults can form between massive chunks of crust on…
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Earth is a pretty big place, but it has a finite amount of resources. Mining companies that seek to exploit untouched parts of our planet…
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The Earth is dealing with something that it hasn't faced in at least the last 800,000 years. It's a dramatic shift in the levels of…
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As far as we know, there's no life that currently exists on Mars. Missions to the Red Planet have yielded tantalizing clues that life may…
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SpaceX is the current leader in commercial spaceflight worldwide, but it's far from the only game in town. Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Amazon boss…
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Robots and space exploration go hand-in-hand, so it's no surprise that NASA is on the forefront of experimental new robotics technologies that could be used…
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If Earth were ever to be threatened by a large space rock — and it definitely will at some point in the future — humanity…
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