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The mission aims to circle a hill-sized asteroid for two years, then skim its surface and bring a hearty sample of 4.5 billion-year-old dirt back to Earth.
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Alex Longo hopes to be the first person to walk on Mars. In the meantime, the Raleigh, N.C., sophomore has suggested a landing site for the next rover mission. His pick is one of four finalists.
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Enjoy Juno's trip to Jupiter — after that we'll see a little gap in planetary science missions from the U.S. That's because a NASA budget crunch several years ago left fewer missions in the pipeline.
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The module known as BEAM can be folded so it takes up less room in a cargo rocket, and then expanded once it reaches space. Or at least that's the hope.
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Of the more than 1,200 planets in the latest trove turned up by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, about half seem to be rocky, like Earth.
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The InSight mission, which would send a lander to detect marsquakes and study the planet's interior, was scheduled for this month. It has been delayed because a pivotal piece of equipment was flawed.
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Two holographic devices made by Microsoft and NASA are scheduled to lift off in a spacecraft from Cape Canaveral this Sunday on a resupply mission headed…
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The U.S. has been wanting to ferry astronauts from U.S. soil to the International Space Station, but for now, American astronauts rely on Russia to get to…
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NASA is a giant step closer to launching Americans again from U.S. soil.On Tuesday, the space agency announced it has picked Boeing and SpaceX to…
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First released in 2004, NASA’s World Wind is an open source, 3-D model of Earth generated from satellite imaging data.It’s not just a fancy globe. The…