A surprise cometary appearance made the April 8th total solar eclipse all the more memorable.
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NASA's Juno spacecraft came within 1,500 km (930 miles) of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io in two recent flybys.…
It was 1903 that the Wright brothers made the first successful self-propelled flight. Launching themselves to history, they set the…
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Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Apollo astronauts set up a collection of lunar seismometers to detect possible Moon quakes.…
The dwarf planet Ceres has some permanently dark craters that hold ice. Astronomers thought the ice was ancient when they…
Cosmic rays are high-energy particles accelerated to extreme velocities approaching the speed of light. It takes an extremely powerful event…
NASA is in the business of launching things into orbit. But what goes up must come down, and if whatever…