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NASA's Life-Hunting Mars 2020 Rover Will Search for Alien Microfossils

The life-hunting grounds could be pretty rich for NASA's next Mars rover. Jezero Crater, the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) hole in the ground that the Mars 2020 rover will begin exploring in February 2021, has ample deposits of minerals that are good at ...

Kelly Clarkson Just Called 2 NASA Astronauts in Space. Here's What They Said (Video)

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch chatted with singer and talk-show host Kelly Clarkson from the International Space Station today (Nov. 14), discussing everything from spacewalking to self-care and even moonwalking. Before beginning the ...

NASA Needs Sharper Leadership to Get to the Moon, Let Alone Mars

Two longtime spaceflight experts told a group of congressional representatives that NASA needed stronger leadership to meet its ambitious 2024 lunar-landing goal, much less to put humans on Mars. That testimony came during a meeting of the House ...

New Yorkers Celebrate Rare Mercury Transit by Staring at the Sun (Safely) with Wonder

NEW YORK — Near the edge of Jamaica Bay, about a dozen people gathered here to watch Mercury travel across the sun on Monday (Nov. 11). Coffee and snacks from Dunkin' Donuts sat on a table stationed near three telescopes and a handful of cars.

A Million Geysers of Plasma Spout from the Sun, and Scientists May Finally Know Why

When it comes to the mystery behind what causes jets of solar plasma that regularly erupt from the sun, clues have now emerged suggesting magnetic clashes on the surface of the sun may be the culprits, a new study finds. These findings may also help shed ...

50 Years Ago: NASA's Apollo 12 Was Struck By Lightning Right After Launch ... Twice! (Video)

Fifty years ago today, NASA's Apollo 12 mission launched for the moon — and got struck twice by lightning just seconds after the rocket lifted off at 11:22 a.m. EDT on Nov. 14, 1969. Lightning struck the Saturn V launch vehicle at 6,400 feet (TKTK km) in the air ...

Researchers generate terahertz laser with laughing gas

Within the electromagnetic middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of "T-ray vision." Terahertz waves have frequencies higher than microwaves and lower than infrared and visible light. Where optical light ...

Congress Is Increasingly Wary About NASA's 2024 Moon Landing Deadline

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At a House hearing held yesterday in Washington D.C., members of Congress and space experts voiced serious concerns about NASA's current plan to send American men and women to the Moon in just five years. On March 26, 2019, Vice President Mike ...

Now in space: A cutting-edge satellite the size of a shoebox built by students

Just be thankful there are students like Paige Northway and Nathan Wacker, two University of Washington students who think it's neat to work on stuff like a satellite the size of a shoebox. For most of us, all that is beyond our comprehension. But that's how ...

Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets

New research by engineers at the University of Illinois combines atomic-scale experimentation with computer modeling to determine how much energy it takes to bend multilayer graphene—a question that has eluded scientists since graphene was first ...