A private US lunar lander that has been leaking fuel throughout its journey is now headed for Earth and will likely burn up in the atmosphere, the company said Saturday.
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A 38-year-old retired NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky.
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Jupiter's moon Europa is the smoothest object in the Solar System. There are no mountains, very few craters, and no valleys. It's tallest features are isolated massifs up to 500 meters (1640 ft) tall.
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Martian sunsets are uniquely moody, but NASA's Curiosity rover captured one last month that stands out. As the sun descended over the horizon on Feb. 2, rays of light illuminated a bank of clouds. These "sun rays" are also ...
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Mar 6, 2023
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An Alabama high school student named NASA's first Mars helicopter that will be deployed to the red planet later this summer.
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Apr 30, 2020
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A NASA astronaut said Tuesday that he pulled out of a spacewalk this week because of a pinched nerve in his neck.
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May 2024 has already proven to be a particularly stormy month for our sun. During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic ...
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May 16, 2024
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Next week's launch of NASA's new space telescope is delayed for at least two days because of a communication problem between the observatory and the rocket.
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Dec 15, 2021
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A massive asteroid will whiz past the Earth on Saturday, but hold any thoughts of disaster movies.
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Nov 15, 2021
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After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble.
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