People with a general idea of how space works may assume everything we left on the Moon from the US trips in the late 60’s and early 70’s should remain
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To deal with the growing problem of dangerous space junk, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) has turned to nature for a sticky solution. The “Gecko Gripper” system is modeled after
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NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the first real proof of organic molecules, the building blocks of life, on the surface of Mars. The little rover drilled the sample from the
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Mars seems dry and dead today, but the more we investigate the planet, the more evidence we find that at one point water flowed freely in at least some places
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On Friday NASA successfully launched and recovered its Orion spacecraft, a critical test for future Mars missions. The spacecraft took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a Delta
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A NASA spacecraft has helped scientist find 101 geysers on one of Saturn’s moons. The cosmic hot spot, Enceladus, is spraying water and ice from its vast underground seas through
101 Geysers Found on Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Read More »
Yesterday, a group of civilian scientists was able to make contact with and control a spacecraft that has been wandering alone in the solar system for decades. The spacecraft, the International
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I didn’t know you could just ask NASA for its defunct spacecraft. But apparently if you’ve got serious enough backing and a good plan, they’re open to negotiation. NASA announced
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Even though Star Wars has probably done more to create misconceptions about space and space travel than any other media, NASA knows what’s popular. So they’ve teamed with Lucsasfilm to
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NASA scientists are reporting they’ve found the first Earth-sized planet that’s in the right place in another solar system to sustain life. The planet, named Kepler-186f, was discovered using NASA’s Kepler
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