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'Young' Ice at the Moon's South Pole Surprises Researchers

Some ice deposits on the moon are younger than expected, researchers say, and it appears these deposits came from multiple sources at different times in our solar system's history. This moon ice survives in permanently shadowed craters and could prove ...

How the Nobel Prize-Winning Exoplanet Was Found

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." Sutter contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The most recent Nobel Prize ...

NASA's 1st SLS Megarocket Launch to the Moon Could Be Delayed to 2021

LAS CRUCES, N.M. — NASA has yet to set a launch date for the first test flight of its long-delayed Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, which the agency plans to use to send astronauts to the lunar surface in 2024. And it looks like more delays could be ...

Lawmakers Grill NASA Chief on Moon-by-2024 Budget, Schedule

"I don't want to go to the moon by taking money from people who can't afford to survive in this society," Serrano said. Shares. Click here for more Space.com videos... Sorry, the video player failed to load.(Error Code: 100013). A key group of congressional ...

Moon VIPER: NASA Wants to Send a Water-Sniffing Rover to the Lunar South Pole in 2022

NASA is already pulling together plans for what could become its first long-lived robotic rover on the moon's surface, designed to sniff out water and targeting a landing date of 2022. Right now, that rover, called Volatiles Investigation Polar Exploration Rover ...

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NASA's First All-Female Spacewalk Set For Friday

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The first all-female spacewalk in NASA's 61-year history is finally happening and will even take place a few days ahead of schedule. Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who were initially supposed to venture beyond the International Space Station ...

A secret in saliva: Food and germs helped humans evolve into unique member of great apes

Two million years of eating meat and cooked food may have helped humans shift further from other great apes on the evolutionary tree. The evidence is in our saliva, according to new research from the University at Buffalo. The research discovered that the ...

Hubble Space Telescope Spots Interstellar Comet Borisov (Video)

NASA's venerable Hubble Space Telescope recently turned its eyes to interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov and caught a surprise: The interloper looks a lot like comets from our own solar system. Hubble's observations from earlier this month show that the dust ...

New study shows huge dinosaurs evolved different cooling systems to combat heat stroke

Different dinosaur groups independently evolved gigantic body sizes, but they all faced the same problems of overheating and damaging their brains. Researchers from Ohio University's Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine show in a new article in the ...

Quantum physics: Ménage à trois photon-style

Entanglement is one of the properties specific to quantum particles. When two photons become entangled, for instance, the quantum state of the first will correlate perfectly with the quantum state of the second, even if they are at a distance from one another.