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Aug 24, 2020An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets – planets that float in space without orbiting a sun – than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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Aug 10, 2020Brines may still be percolating up to the surface on Ceres today as the result of an impact that created the Occator crater 20 million years ago.
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Aug 1, 2020The first helicopter attempting to fly on another planet is a marvel of engineering. Get up to speed with these key facts about its plans.
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Jul 31, 2020Imagine a future where the Perseverance Rover actually found definitive evidence of life on Mars. What would happen next?
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Jul 30, 2020NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is heading to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life, collect samples for future return to Earth and help pave the way for human exploration.
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Jul 29, 2020The trigger for “Snowball Earth” global ice ages may have been drops in incoming sunlight that happened quickly, in geological terms, according to an MIT study.
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Jul 11, 2020NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search for life on other planets.
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Jul 8, 2020The origin of carbon, an element essential to life on Earth, in the Milky Way galaxy is still debated among astrophysicists.
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Jun 18, 2020There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every five Sun-like stars in the Milky way Galaxy, according to new estimates by University of British Columbia astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler mission.
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Jun 17, 2020The new research by scientists at NASA and the Italian Space Agency has implications for the entire Saturn system as well as other planets and moons.