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The curtain is about to come down on Comet NEOWISE

The brightest comet to appear in Northern Hemisphere skies in nearly a quarter of a century will soon be ending its run as a naked-eye object. Comet NEOWISE (aka C/2020 F3) was discovered on March 27 by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission, ...

Democratic Party voices support for NASA in 2020 platform

"We believe in continuing the spirit of discovery that has animated NASA's human space exploration." Shares. The Democratic Party released their 2020 platform, which includes support for NASA. (Image credit: Gage Skidmore). The Democratic Party has ...

NASA Jupiter probe images huge moon Ganymede like never before (photos)

NASA's Juno Jupiter probe has captured unprecedented views of the largest moon in the solar system. During a close flyby of Jupiter on Dec. 26, 2019, Juno mapped the north polar regions of the icy satellite Ganymede in infrared light, something no other ...

Mars rovers of the past paved the way for NASA's newest explorer Perseverance

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(CNN) When NASA's newest rover Perseverance lands on Mars in February 2021, it will become the fifth rover sent by the agency to the red planet. Perseverance will act as a robotic astrobiologist, investigating the site of an ancient lake and river delta and ...

NASA asteroid camera spots China's Tianwen-1 Mars spacecraft speeding away from Earth

During routine survey operations for hazardous #asteroids for @NASA's #PlanetaryDefense Coordination Office, the @fallingstarIfA ATLAS-MLO telescope spotted China's Tianwen-1 on its way to #Mars. Bon Voyage Tianwen-1! pic.twitter.com/Kc5SQjljgcJuly ...

NASA mission will study the cosmos with a stratospheric balloon

This illustration shows a high-altitude balloon ascending into the upper atmosphere. When fully inflated, these balloons are 400 feet (150 meters) wide, or about the size of a football stadium, and reach an altitude of 130,000 feet (24.6 miles or 40 kilometers).

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3 Great Mysteries About Life on Mars

The New York Times

Mars is the most explored planet in the solar system other than Earth. With all of our robotic visitors there, we've discovered that it is a world far too dry, cold and irradiated to support the scheming humanoids or tentacled invaders once imagined by science ...

Little ancient Egyptian mummies hold surprises inside … and they aren't human

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Livescience.com

When scientists peered beneath the wrappings of two small ancient Egyptian mummies thought to hold human hearts, they were taken aback: Not only were there no noticeable hearts inside, but the remains were not even human. Rather, one of the mummies ...

As if space wasn't dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity

China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch of the Emirates ...

Behold! Saturn has no summertime blues in this amazing Hubble telescope photo

Can't get enough of summer? Saturn's northern hemisphere is also in the throes of the season, and the Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new photo of the ringed planet to celebrate. The photo is part of a long-running program called Outer ...