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NASA launches a probe to find out if there really could be alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa
Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplaneta…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Two of Uranus' Moons may have active oceans: NASA study
One or two of Uranus' 27 moons - Ariel and/or Miranda - likely have oceans beneath their icy surfac…
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NASA is visiting the largest valley on the Moon five decades after Apollo 18 was originally supposed to land on the Grand Canyon-sized formation
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency’s (NASA) Apollo 18 mission may have been cancelled but it…
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New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth
NASA's Juno spacecraft flew extremely close to Jupiter's eruptive moon Io and took some stunning ph…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Scientists launch JUICE mission to explore Jupiter's icy moons
Could we discover conditions necessary for life outside the Earth in the solar system? This is one …
PTI
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Building blocks of life discovered in Titan’s atmosphere — NASA discovers a ‘weird’ molecule on Saturn’s largest moon
This is a big deal because out of over 200 moons within our solar system, and 62 that belong to …
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As Saturn's iconic rings disappear, it's on the verge of losing its largest moon as well — at a rate that's 100 times faster than originally anticipated
Social distancing may be the part of the new normal down here on Earth. But, in outer space, it’s t…
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapor on Jupiter's ocean moon Ganymede for the first time
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered evidence of water vapor in the atmospher…
Kelly McLaughlin
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NASA's Juno probe at Jupiter beamed back close-up photos of the planet's largest moon, Ganymede, for the first time in 2 decades
Juno recently zipped past Ganymede and snapped a stunning portrait of the moon. NASA expects more c…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A design proposal calls for building the world's largest underwater habitat — a deep-sea version of the International Space Station
Fabien Costeau — grandson of oceanographer Jacques Cousteau — helped design a proposed habitat name…
Aylin Woodward
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Photos from the Great Barrier Reef show corals unleashing a colorful storm of eggs and sperm
Warming ocean waters have hurt Australia's coral populations, but a local scientist says seeing the…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A 3-foot-long mammoth tusk hidden on the ocean floor could offer clues about the ancient creatures
Scientists discovered a 3-foot-long tusk roughly 10,000 feet below the ocean's surface. Mammoth fos…
Aria Bendix
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NASA to probe Uranus, aims to examine Saturn's moon that could support life
In a report, the team at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), recommend…
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Side-by-side images from flybys of Europa show close-up views of Jupiter's icy moon over 20 years
During Thursday's flyby, NASA's Juno probe made important observations about Europa, a leading cand…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Moon meteorite in the Western Sahara contains an new mineral that could explain what's happening in the Earth's mantle
A team of European researchers has discovered a new high-pressure mineral named donwilhelmsite in t…
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Stunning video captures a rare Jupiter triple-eclipse: 3 large moons casting their shadows over the planet
Moons pass between Jupiter and Earth all the time, but it's rare that three of them do it at once. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Something awful is happening to the largest moon of Mars
But unlike our moon, Phobos has a very weak core. NASA scientists think it's just a pile of rubble …
Kelly Dickerson
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New close-up photos of Saturn's largest moon may be the last for decades
Once Cassini vanishes, it may be the last probe that NASA sends to Saturn for decades. There are cu…
Dave Mosher
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Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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NASA's $1 billion Dragonfly drone mission will look for signs of life on Saturn's moon
As well as look for water, carbon compounds, and other signs of potential life. And NASA already ha…