NASA has sent a number of high-tech robots to the Red Planet already, but we don’t normally hear about how things like entry and landing went until after the fact. That’s going to chang…
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Leonid meteor shower coming to a sky near you this weekend
Be sure to keep an eye to the sky this weekend: The peak of the Leonid meteor shower will be visible across the night sky Saturday and Sunday.
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Upsettingly Large Fungus in Michigan Weighs 440 Tons and Is 2500 Years Old
It’s nicknamed the “humongous fungus”—an unusually large fungal growth belonging to a single genetic individual. An updated analysis of this gigantic fungal beast shows it’s substantially larger and older than scientists initially thought.
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Watch Northrop Grumman Roll Its Antares Rocket to the Pad for Launch! (Time-Lapse Video)
It’s almost launch time for Northrop Grumman’s next Antares rocket, which rolled out to its seaside pad in Virginia late Monday (Nov. 12) for a NASA cargo mission to the International Space Station this week.
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The Earth Is Eating Its Own Oceans
A new study raises questions about the water cycle of the deep Earth.
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China Plans to Build a Particle Collider Five Times More Powerful Than the LHC
A whole 20 miles in diameter.
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NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua
In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as ‘Oumuamua—the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system. The infrared Spitzer was one of many telescopes pointed at ‘Oumuamua in the weeks after its…
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For arid, Mars-like Peruvian desert, rain brings death
When rains fell on the arid Atacama Desert, it was reasonable to expect floral blooms to follow. Instead, the water brought death.
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Russia unveils NUCLEAR spaceship poised for groundbreaking INTERSTELLAR missions
RUSSIA’s Space Agency, Roscosmos, has unveiled a nuclear powered spaceship designed for groundbreaking interplanetary and interstellar flights.
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Menu for astronauts in space includes variety, comforts of home
Neil Armstrong may have taken that first small step for man onto the moon, but it was John Glenn who took the first slurp of applesauce for humankind.Until he ate while orbiting Earth in 1962, scientists at NASA weren’t sure humans could swallow and digest fo…
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