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NASA's new Mars mission just landed — and it could reveal why Earth is...
NASA just successfully landed its InSight robot on the surface of Mars.InSight won't move around Mars, but it will be the first mission to take the red planet's temperature.NASA will also listen for...
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NASA’s InSight lander may not be as sexy as a Mars rover, but here’s why the...
NASA's Insight lander has landed safely. The robot will soon start beaming back information about quakes and wobbles on Mars.Mars doesn't have tectonic plates like Earth, but learning more about how...
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NASA's InSight lander sent back its first photo of Mars within minutes of...
NASA just successfully landed on Mars for the eighth time in the agency's history.The InSight lander quickly sent back a photo of its new Martian view.InSight will now spend approximately two Earth...
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Watch NASA scientists freak out after landing a probe on Mars for the first...
NASA's InSight lander touched down on Mars on Monday afternoon after a nearly seven-month trip to the red planet.Scientists burst into cheers at NASA's mission control in California, hugging each other...
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Insight Lander successfully touched down on Mars yesterday and it's the largest drill NASA has ever sent to space. The $850 million drill is designed to study the interior structure of Mars, digging...
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NASA can hear the 'haunting' sound of dust devils tearing across Mars with...
NASA's InSight lander touched down on Mars on November 26.Two instruments on the robot recently recorded the sounds of blowing winds and vibrations of tornado-like dust devils tearing across the...
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NASA's InSight lander just took its first selfie on Mars — take a look
The selfie is made up of 11 images.NASA's InSight lander touched down on Mars on November 26.NASA will determine where to place InSight's instruments over the next few weeks.NASA's InSight lander has...
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85% of Americans would give NASA a giant raise, but most don't know how...
INSIDER polled more than 1,000 people living in the US about the funding and direction of NASA.Most respondents said returning to the moon should be a priority for the US space agency.But a majority...
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Astronomers released new photos of a Mars crater full of ice and it looks...
New images from the European Space Agency show how Mars' Korolev crater looks like it's full of snow.The crater, which stretches about 51 miles wide, is actually brimming with ice that's about 1.1...
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Elon Musk says SpaceX's Starship could reach orbit within 2 years. Here's the...
Elon Musk shared pictures on Twitter showing the construction of a prototype of SpaceX's massive Mars-bound spaceship at a launch site in Texas.The 180-foot-tall Starship, previously known as the Big...
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China wants to launch to Mars next year — part of an ambitious plan to bring...
China recently landed the first spacecraft on the far side of the moon and plans to launch a lunar sample-return mission at the end of the year.The China National Space Administration is also working...
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The speed of light is torturously slow, and these 3 simple animations by a...
The speed of light in a vacuum is about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second).A scientist at NASA animated how long it takes light to travel around Earth, as well as between the...
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Trump reportedly offered NASA 'all the money you could ever need' to land on...
President Donald Trump reportedly offered the NASA "all the money you could ever need" to land on Mars by the first term of his presidency, according to a report from New York Magazine that cited an...
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Elon Musk says he is 'confident' people could afford to 'sell their home on...
SpaceX is designing a new rocket ship, called Starship, to send about 100 people to Mars at a time.Elon Musk, the rocket company's founder, said on Twitter that Starship could be 10 times cheaper than...
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Chocolate could be extinct by 2050, but some companies think genetic...
The world's chocolate supply is being threatened by disease and climate change. By 2050, the cacao seeds used to make chocolate could be extinct.A coalition of 1,600 farmers recently released a line of...
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NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is dead after nearly 15 years on the red...
NASA's Opportunity rover is officially dead and the mission is over, the agency said Wednesday.The rover stopped communicating in June 2018 during a brutal Martian dust storm, but NASA didn't give up...
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Mars One, the 'Fyre Festival' of Mars that promised one-way trips to space,...
Mars One has declared bankruptcy.The company sought to create a colony of humans on Mars, sending people there as soon as 2025 on a budget of $6 billion.It was widely mocked in the scientific community...
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'This is a hard day:' NASA's Opportunity rover is dead, ending the...
NASA's Opportunity rover hasn't phoned home in the months after a global dust storm tore across Mars.Officials at NASA announced the Martian robot's death on Wednesday.Now that both Opportunity and its...
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Elon Musk says SpaceX is developing a 'bleeding' heavy-metal rocket ship....
SpaceX is developing a giant, fully reusable launch system called Starship to ferry people to and from Mars.Elon Musk, the aerospace company's founder, said he recently made "radical" changes to the...
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Bird poop and dust could seriously complicate Elon Musk and SpaceX's latest...
SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Elon Musk, is developing a rocket ship to ferry people to the moon and Mars.Musk said Starship would have a heat shield that "bleeds" fuel during landing to...
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