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Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Gets Two-Year Mission Extension

Jun 30, 2021 Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA NEOWISE has provided an estimate of the size of over 1,850 near-Earth objects, helping us better understand our...
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Perseverance is the first of a new class of Mars explorers

Bringing Mars rocks back to Earth: On Feb. 18, Perseverance Rover landed safely on Mars – a lead scientist explains the tech and goals Jim...
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Unexpected find in the clouds of Venus

The detection of phosphine in Venus' clouds is a big deal – here's how we can find out if it's a sign of life Paul...
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NASA heading back to Mars

NASA's big move to search for life on Mars – and to bring rocks home Briony Horgan, Purdue University and Melissa Rice, Western Washington University This...
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Studying the effects of microgravity on human cell growth.

Why are scientists trying to manufacture organs in space? Alysson R. Muotri, University of California San Diego Gravity can be a real downer when you are...
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Touching asteroid Ryugu

Touching the asteroid Ryugu revealed secrets of its surface and changing orbit Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University On Feb. 21, 2019, we shot an...

SpaceX reaches for milestone in spaceflight

A new era begins as a private company launches astronauts into orbit On May 27, two American astronauts, Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley,...

Building a mirror for one of the world’s biggest telescopes

Buddy Martin, University of Arizona and Dae Wook Kim, University of Arizona When astronomers point their telescopes up at the sky to see distant supernovae...

Why we need to get back to Venus

Why we need to get back to Venus Paul K. Byrne, North Carolina State University Just next door, cosmologically speaking, is a planet almost exactly like...

NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Completes Its First Drive

Republished from article on JPL.NASA.gov NASA's next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019,...

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