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NASA Plans to Use ‘Lunar Flashlight’ in Search for Moon Water
NASA’s goal of returning humans, including a female astronaut, to the moon with the 2024 Artemis mission is approaching, and engineers are getting ready. They’ll land on the lunar surface from an...
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Kepler Gem: Scientists Find a Tantalizing, and Overlooked Exoplanet
Scientists have made an exciting discovery in deep space — but not with an existing telescope or space probe. Combing through a backlog of data collected several years ago by NASA’s now defunct Kepler...
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Weather Report from Jupiter: Mushballs, With a Chance of Shallow Lightning
Four years after arriving at the planet Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is still making fresh discoveries and sending us breathtaking pictures of the gas giant and its entourage of at least 79 moons....
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How Often Do Space Objects Hit Earth? A Primer
The year 2020 is clearly out to make its mark in a big way: a global pandemic, massive wildfires across the Western United States, huge demonstrations for social justice around the globe. Here’s...
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Is There Life in the Clouds Above Venus?
In an era of deep space exploration, a tantalizing and surprising discovery has raised the possibility of life on Earth’s nearest, scorching-hot planetary neighbor Venus. Scientists observing with the...
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Did Earth Receive a Radio Transmission From Proxima Centauri?
A team of astronomers is hard at work analyzing an unusual radio signal detected early in 2019 by the Parkes telescope, a 64-meter radio dish in eastern Australia. The signal appears to have come from...
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After Breathtaking Images and Stupendous Discoveries, Spacecraft Juno Gets 4...
Like an artist whose pleased patron commissions more masterpieces, NASA’s Juno spacecraft just earned an extension after four extraordinary years of discovery. And if you’ve seen any of Juno’s images...
View ArticleWatch Live Coverage of Mars Rover Perseverance Landing
After years of complicated preparations, NASA is expected to attempt its ninth Mars landing on Thursday at 12:55 p.m. PT. The live landing commentary will begin at 11:15 a.m. If it lands successfully,...
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Was There Life on Mars? The Mission to Find Out Begins, as Perseverance...
Touchdown! No, it’s not football — unless you imagine a playing field 300 million miles long and a fiery 25,000 mph end-zone plunge. The ball in play is NASA’s Perseverance rover, which successfully...
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NASA Is Considering 5 Space Tech Concepts That Sound Like Sci-Fi
Farming space with soil from asteroids “digested” by fungus? Levitating across the lunar landscape? How about powering a moon base with sunlight? Or scaffolding enormous spinning space habitats?...
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Meet the Interstellar Five, Robotic Explorers Venturing Far, Far From Earth
More than four decades after launch, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is over 14 billion miles from Earth, cruising an eternal course through the stars of the Milky Way galaxy. And Voyager 1 is not the only...
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A Helicopter Takes Flight on Mars
More than a century ago the first propeller-driven aircraft took off on Earth. On Monday, another one took flight for the first time on a different planet. NASA’s experimental Mars Helicopter,...
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Earth Day 2021: 11 Bay Area Events to Get You Inspired
The first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, kicked off the modern environmental movement with more than 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population — hitting the streets to demand action against...
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By Flying Helicopter, Making Oxygen on Mars, NASA Lays Groundwork for Human...
The only helicopter on Mars has done it again. Ingenuity took off on its fourth flight Friday, reaching an altitude of 16 feet and traveling a distance of almost three football fields — 872 feet —...
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NASA Prepares to Return to Venus for the First Time in Decades
Venus is back on the menu for space exploration! NASA announced the selection of not one, but two new missions to Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. The first mission — Deep Atmosphere Venus...
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Are There Lakes Hiding on Mars? Echoes From the Deep Raise This Tantalizing...
In 2018, a highly sophisticated instrument probing the surface of Mars called MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) detected radar echoes from an area deep beneath the...
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