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While originally conceived as an in-house job, NASA has since realized that its version of the plan would cost at least $7 ...
Landing on Mars once felt like a distant dream. Now, space agencies have sent rovers and landers to explore the Red Planet ...
The moon will be 99% full Friday night, and with mostly clear skies expected for Louisville in the evening, tonight is a good ...
Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...
Mars may not have always been the dry and dusty world we imagine. A staggering network of ancient riverbeds, spanning over 15 ...
"One of the most successful and enduring feats of interplanetary exploration, NASA's Opportunity rover mission is at an end after almost 15 years exploring the surface of Mars and helping lay the ...
Traditionally, Mars was thought to have been cold and dry, with only brief periods of melting ice creating short-lived rivers ...
A 54-pound meteorite from Mars is expected to fetch up to $4 million when it goes up for auction later this month at ...
In all, there are only 400 known Mars rocks on Earth, comprising less than 1% of all known space rocks on the Blue Planet.
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.