In its 15 months of service, NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite has racked up many exciting exoplanet discoveries, but few show promise in the search for…
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NASA's Apollo 11 mission broke new ground in a lot of obvious ways. Landing humans on the lunar surface was a huge accomplishment, as was…
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NASA's TESS — Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — has been scanning the skies for a little over a year now and it's already returned a…
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Thanks to powerful telescopes that can detect large objects at extreme distances, we earthlings have a pretty good idea of the space rocks that pose…
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Thanks to the nature of light and the fact that it can only move so fast, peering at objects far away means that astronomers can…
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Humans have never set foot on Mars, but that's not stopping scientists from doing their best to understand what it might be like when that…
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When NASA and other space agencies from around the world eventually send humans back to the Moon in the coming decades they'll likely be doing…
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For astronomers, discovering new worlds, stars, and even entire galaxies is really only half the battle. Once discovered, explaining how new features of space formed,…
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Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director and a huge driving force behind the mission that eventually sent astronauts to the Moon, died just days after…
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India's Space Research Organization expected to launch its Chandrayaan-2 mission last week, pushing the country one big step closer to becoming the fourth country to…
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Today is an important day for China's space agency. No, the country isn't launching anything new into space, and in fact, it's sort of the…
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As NASA slowly inches towards the day when it can finally send human travelers to Mars, scientists are doing their best to make sure those…
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These days, scientists think they have a pretty good idea of what the universe is made of. By detecting the telltale signatures of various elements…
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Thanks to astronomers and their constant search for new bodies moving throughout our solar system, we know about a lot of asteroids. Many of them…
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There's really nothing in the universe that can compare to the awesome power of a supermassive black hole. Well, almost nothing. In a new paper…
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It's been almost 42 years since NASA sent its two Voyager spacecraft on record-breaking missions, and both of the decades-old robots are still alive. Voyager…
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Spring may already be in our rear-view mirror but NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is still in the mood for things that bloom. In a new…
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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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