Space

Meet Ingenuity: NASA’s First Mars Helicopter

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Perseverance with Ingenuity strapped to its belly launched on July 30, 2020, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Mars Rover and Mars Helicopter safely landed on the dusty surface at 3:55P ET on February 18, 2021, after traveling nearly 292.5 million miles.

NASA Has Announced Plans for the Next Decade of Space Missions, And It’s Awesome

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Personally speaking, I feel like we’ve been focusing on Mars a little bit too much recently. Sure, the Red Planet is all sorts of awesome – so awesome it may have once been a home for life – but with more than half a dozen orbiters, landers, and rovers, it’s certainly got its due.

NASA’s DART Mission Launches: Defending our Planet from an Asteroid

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NASA’s first mission to test asteroid deflection technology launched yesterday. DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is a mission to slam a rocket into an asteroid… hopefully altering its path.

This Year, James Webb will Take a Close Look at a Lava World

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The James Webb Space Telescope is gearing up to be an exoplanet extraordinaire. Among many other missions and targets, astronomers plan to use the observatory, now in its final stages of preparations to study…well, a world where it might rain lava.

James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Reached Its Final Destination

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Nearly a month after the James Webb Space Telescope launched from French Guiana on December 25, the telescope has reached its final destination–almost a million miles from Earth.

A Jupiter-Sized Exoplanet Orbiting Two Stars

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One of my favorite things about exoplanet systems is just how weird they can get. It seems that every few months we are treated to another surprise. This time around, NASA's TESS observatory delivered a planet almost three times more massive than Jupiter orbiting around not one, but two stars. As an added bonus: that planet orbits its twin suns closer than the Earth does around the sun. Who wants to take a trip?

This All-Civilian Space Mission Wants to Achieve the Highest Human Orbit Ever

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Last year marked a fascinating turning point in the history of spaceflight. For the first time ever, more civilians went into space than professional ones. The private companies Virgin Galactic, Blue Origins, and SpaceX all offer seats for sale, with missions as brief as just a few minutes to as long as a few days.

Jupiter Makes Its Closest Approach to Earth in Nearly 60 Years

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The last time Jupiter appeared this large and bright in the sky was in October 1963.

There’s a Hole in Our Galaxy

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Folks, we just found a 500-lightyear-wide hole in our galaxy. Fess up: which one of you did it?

Let’s Look for Water on the Moon

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NASA is headed to the moon, but this time it's in search of water. Astrophysicist Paul M Sutter shares what this means and why it's important.

28 Billion Light-Years Away: The Most Distant Star Ever Discovered

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On Wednesday, NASA announced the Hubble telescope broke a new record– detecting the most distant star ever seen.

It’s Time to Return to the Land of the Ice Giants

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30 years--It’s been over 30 years since the Voyager 2’s historic flyby of Uranus and Neptune, the outermost and most mysterious planets in the solar system. It’s time to go back.

Billionaire Buys SpaceX Orbital Flight for a Good Cause

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Jared Isaacman, US billionaire and the founder of payment processing tech start-up Shift4 has purchased the first all-civilian mission to space with SpaceX--but it isn't just a joyride.

First US Commercial Crew Port Relocation to Air Live on NASA TV

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On Monday, April 5, another first will occur for commercial space flight. For a look back at Crew-1's initial journey to the ISS, catch up on SPACE LAUNCH LIVE streaming now on discovery+.

Looking Down: NASA Astronauts Share Images from Space

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From "Space Selfies" and birthday celebrations, to beautiful images of Earth, NASA Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley shared tons content while up at the International Space Station.

China and Russia are Building Lunar Space Station Together

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Recently announced, development for an international lunar space station is underway as China and Russia are joining together to build research facilities in orbit and possibly on the moon.

You Love Supernova, So How About Micronova?

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In space, even the smallest explosions are insanely powerful. Take for instance the newly discovered “micronova,” which sounds cute and cuddly and not at all deadly…except for the fact that it’s the explosive equivalent of a nuclear bomb a million times bigger than Mount Everest.