A Giant Trilobite on the Sun
"We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters.
Space Exploration
Sep 19, 2007
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Astronomy & Space news
NASA thinks there's a way to get to Mars in three days
We've achieved amazing things by using chemical rockets to place satellites in orbit, land people on the moon, and place rovers on the surface of Mars. We've even used ion drives to reach destinations further afield in our ...
Space Exploration
Feb 24, 2016
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USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the Moon
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor ...
Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2020
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Key dates in history of space exploration
Notable events in the history of human space exploration:
Space Exploration
Aug 26, 2012
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Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet's history
Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars' north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of the largest water reservoirs on the planet, according to scientists at The University ...
Space Exploration
May 22, 2019
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Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid
After a six-year journey, a plucky spacecraft called Hayabusa2 zinged back into Earth's atmosphere in late 2020 and landed deep in the Australian outback. When researchers from the Japanese space agency JAXA opened it, they ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 9, 2022
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Several asteroids are heading towards Earth: How we deal with threats
Don't look now—but we are currently experiencing a rash of stories about a forthcoming global catastrophe. But in a change from reports of pandemics and climate change, this global catastrophe is produced by the impact ...
Astronomy
Jan 7, 2022
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Huge extragalactic structure found hiding behind the Milky Way
A team of researchers with members from Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidad Andres Bello has found evidence of a large extragalactic assembly hiding behind one part ...
Physicists discover that gravity can create light
Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation.
Astronomy
Apr 10, 2023
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How are galaxies moving away faster than light?
So, how can galaxies be traveling faster than the speed of light when nothing can travel faster than light?
Astronomy
Oct 13, 2015
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