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Celebrate Perseverance rover's 1-year 'Marsiversary' with these events

Meteorites reveal that so long as groundwater is present, the Martian subsurface is habitable

Winning rovers of lunar polar challenge

Smoke from massive wildfires in Russia's eastern Siberia region has reached the geographic North Pole "for the first time in recorded history," according to NASA.

SpaceX's 1st private astronaut mission, Inspiration4, is just one month from launching into history

In just one month, SpaceX will make history with Inspiration4 — the world's first all-civilian spaceflight — the mission's crew couldn't be more excited.

Matter From Light. Physicists Create Matter and Antimatter by Colliding Just Photons.

In 1905 Albert Einstein wrote four groundbreaking papers on quantum theory and relativity. It became known as Einstein’s annus mirabilis or wonderous year. One was on brownian motion, one earned him the Nobel prize in 1921, and one outlined the foundations of special relativity. But it’s Einstein’s last 1905 paper that is the most unexpected.

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Orionid meteor shower 2021: When, where & how to see it

The Orionid meteor shower is peaks in the early morning of Tuesday, Oct. 22, but a bright moon will disrupt viewing until shortly before dawn.

Two planes report 'bright green UFO' swooping through the clouds over Canada

Two aircrafts flying over Canada reported a "bright green UFO" that disappeared into the clouds on July 30.

Earth rocks collected in 19th century hold clues to finding water on Mars

July 2021 was the single hottest month in history, according to a new NOAA report.

Russian space officials try to blame NASA astronaut for Soyuz air leak in 2018 with baseless accusations: report

NASA said the accusations against Expedition 56 flight engineer Serena Auñón-Chancellor are baseless.

A Malaysian satellite has died in space and will meet a fiery doom

A Malaysian satellite will soon fall from space to burn up in Earth's atmosphere following a mysterious "anomaly" that struck it down in orbit.

NASA dedicates Ohio test facility for first moonwalker Neil Armstrong

The first person to walk on the moon declined the honor when asked, but a group of NASA officials and members of Congress presided over a ceremony in Ohio to do just that.

Perseverance Fails to Collect its First Sample

Over the past few weeks, there was quite a bit of excitement in the air at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where mission controllers were prepping the Perseverance rover to acquire its first sample from the Martian surface. This mission milestone would be the culmination of years of hard work by a team of over 90 dedicated scientists and engineers.

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7-Eleven launches Coca-Cola Slurpee on stratospheric 'space' flight

A 7-Eleven Slurpee has come closer to leaving the planet than any convenience store-dispensed drink has done before.

See the first 'Blade Runner: Black Lotus' trailer and catch a sneak peek at the opening minutes

The first trailer and a sneak peek at "Blade Runner: Black Lotus" are here and they're packed with sci-fi awesomeness.

NASA Sends a 3D Printer for Lunar Regolith and More to the ISS

One of the reasons the ISS is still alive and kicking is that it offers a unique environment for testing that is available nowhere, either on the Earth or off of it.  Plenty of science experiments want to take advantage of that uniqueness.  This week, a fresh crop of experiments was delivered to the ISS aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply craft.  They range from 3D printers to a high school science experiment with mold, and now they each have the opportunity to make use of the ISS’s microgravity environment.

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Boeing's Starliner launch, a critical test flight for NASA, delayed indefinitely as capsule heads back to factory

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft won't be flying to the International Space Station for NASA this month after all.

Solar Orbiter spacecraft sends postcard from Venus in flyby video

Sun-exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter has captured this video of a glowing crescent of Venus as it flew past the planet during a gravity-assist flyby on Monday (Aug 9).

Dragonfly Mission has Some Ambitious Science Goals to Accomplish When it Arrives at Titan

As any good project manager will tell you, goals are necessary to complete any successful project.  The more audacious the goal, the more potentially successful the project will be.  But bigger goals are harder to hit, leading to an increased chance of failure.  So when the team behind one of NASA’s most unique missions released a list of goals this week, the space exploration world took notice.  One thing is clear – Dragonfly will not lack ambition.

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How far is Earth from the sun?

The distance between Earth and the sun is 1 astronomical unit. How far is that?

OSIRIS-Rex got to Know Bennu Really Well. Apparently, There’s now a 1-in-1,750 Chance That it’ll hit Earth by 2300

Asteroid Bennu is one of the two most hazardous known asteroids in our Solar System. Luckily, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft orbited Bennu for more than two years and gathered data that has allowed scientists to better understand the asteroid’s future orbit, trajectory and Earth-impact probability, and even rule out some future impact possibilities.

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How Sloppily Black Holes Eat Reveals Their Mass

No one knows why quasars flicker — but astronomers are using these wavering beacons to "weigh" the black holes that power them.

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