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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe aims to fly closer to the sun like never before

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A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get...

Avalanches, icy explosions and dunes: NASA is tracking New Year on Mars

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Instead of a winter wonderland, the Red Planet's northern hemisphere goes through an active—even explosive—spring thaw. While New Year's Eve is around the corner...

NASA honors Algerian parks with Martian namesakes

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NASA's mapping of Mars now bears the names of three iconic Algerian national parks, Algerian physicist Noureddine Melikechi, a member of the US space...

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovers a surprise in a Martian rock

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Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before...

Analysis of NASA InSight data suggests Mars hit by meteoroids more often than thought

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NASA's Mars InSight Lander may be resting on the Red Planet in retirement, but data from the robotic explorer is still leading to seismic...

NASA is considering other ways of getting its Mars samples home

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In 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars. For the next three years, this astrobiology mission collected soil and rock...

A NASA rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilized life on Mars

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While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for...

NASA’s Juno gives aerial views of mountain and lava lake on Io

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Scientists on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that highlight two of the...

NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth

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NASA's plan to bring samples from Mars back to Earth is on hold until there's a faster, cheaper way, space agency officials said Monday. Retrieving...

NASA unveils design for message heading to Jupiter’s moon Europa

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When it launches in October, the agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a richly layered dispatch that includes more than 2.6 million names submitted...

NASA is looking for commercial Mars missions. Do people still want to go to Mars?

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Mars has been a source of myth, lore and inspiration since antiquity. It is also an interesting place to research—a legitimate candidate for us...

NASA announces new ‘super-Earth’: Exoplanet orbits in ‘habitable zone,’ is only 137 light-years away

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Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only...
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