NASA’s only visit to Uranus happened during a rare cosmic occurrence
This week, revisit what you know about Uranus, explore the far side of the moon, rediscover the famed fossil known as Lucy, ...
How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...
NASA spacecraft captures stunning new images of Jupiter
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back new, eye-catching images of Jupiter, capturing intricate views of the planet's turbulent atmosphere as well as one of its lesser-known moons. On Oct. 23, the ...
NASA Monitors As Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaches Earth Today
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
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The last supermoon of the year will peak alongside the Leonid meteor shower
November’s full moon, otherwise known as the beaver moon, will shine bright in the sky on Friday as the last supermoon of the ...
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Meteorite found in a drawer in 1929 contains ancient evidence of liquid water on Mars
About 11 million years ago, an asteroid collided with Mars, sending plumes of debris beyond the planet’s atmosphere. One of ...
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Telescope for NASA’s Roman Mission complete, delivered to Goddard
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has ...
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Why the US hasn't returned humans to the moon. The reasons are depressing.
Landing 12 people on the moon remains one of NASA's greatest achievements, if not the greatest. Astronauts on the Apollo ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Celebrate Mars New Year Now Because The Next One Won’t Come Until 2026
Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
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NASA lost $80,000,000 after an employee missed one single punctuation mark in their coding
The power of punctuation was clearly demonstrated after this NASA employee made this simple mistake costing the space ...