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Perseverance rover has found a rock with potential signs of ancient life on Mars! Scientists can’t wait to bring it back
The rock exhibits chemical signatures and structures that might have formed billions of years ago, …
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I tried the French space food that launched with SpaceX's latest astronaut crew, and it was better than I expected
The author (left) tasted three French dishes specially designed for astronauts on the International…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A mid-air error led NASA's Mars helicopter to tilt wildly back and forth in its latest flight - but it landed safely
Ingenuity lost just one navigation photo, but that made it tilt back and forth in the air on the wa…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aria Be…
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NASA scientist arrested after chaining himself to Chase Bank as part of global climate protests
Scientists chained themselves to the White House gate and the doors of a Chase Bank in a multi-city…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA scientists say the Tonga volcano eruption shot out the highest ash plume satellites have ever captured
The Tonga volcano shot a plume of ash 36 miles high, into the third layer of Earth's atmosphere. Th…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New types of polar lights are upending what we know about the aurora. Amateur scientists and interns made the latest discoveries.
Though humans have been observing the aurora for centuries, scientists are still learning about how…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A broken clamp rattled NASA's new $10 billion space telescope, risking damage just weeks before launch
NASA pushed back the James Webb Space Telescope's December launch by four days after a clamp broke …
Francis Agustin,Morgan McFall…
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured photos of cyclones, changing colors, and seasons on 4 distant planets
NASA's most powerful space telescope peers across the solar system to spy new storms on Jupiter and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA engineers expected their Mars helicopter to crash after 5 liftoffs. It just landed its 15th flight.
Engineers weren't sure if NASA's Ingenuity helicopter would even lift off on Mars. But the drone ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Juno spacecraft flew above Jupiter's Great Red Spot and discovered that the vortex churns up to 310 miles deep
Jupiter's iconic storm is taller than the distance between Earth ant the space station. The jet str…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch SpaceX launch its next astronaut crew for NASA on Wednesday, after a week of delays
NASA had to delay the flight due to an astronaut medical issue - not an emergency and not related t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful it discovered sand storms on a planet 235 trillion miles away
NASA's Webb telescope peered at clouds on the distant "super Jupiter" planet, and detected tiny san…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan Mc…
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The Sun comes in between the Earth and Mars-- and that means vacation for some NASA engineers
Today (August 28), Mars and Earth will be on the opposite sides of the sun, which means the Red P…
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Cracks found on the International Space Station are a 'fairly serious issue,' a former NASA astronaut says
NASA says mysterious cracks on Russia's Zarya module are not currently a threat to astronauts. But …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures photos of dark red storms raging in Jupiter's Northern hemisphere
New photos of Jupiter taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will help scientists to track and bett…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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NASA says its Hubble telescope captured a spiral galaxy that's as bright as a jewel and 68 million light-years from Earth
The European and US space agencies said a photo snapped by the Hubble was of a galaxy in the Fornax…
Kevin Shalvey
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Elon Musk says SpaceX's moon lander will probably be ready before 2024, as NASA pays $300 million toward Artemis contract
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said his company's lunar lander is expected to be ready before 2024, marki…
Kevin Shalvey
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Jeff Bezos is offering to cover billions in costs if NASA remedies its 'mistake' and gives Blue Origin the chance to compete with SpaceX again for a moon-lander contract
Blue Origin said NASA had been "unfair" when it gave a contract to SpaceX. Now Jeff Bezos wants his…
Grace Kay
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NASA has now tried and failed to fix the Hubble Space Telescope 3 times. It's been offline for a week.
Hubble is hibernating to protect its scientific instruments while NASA troubleshoots the computer t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A timeline of Elon Musk's political stances and donations before his latest embrace of the Republican Party
Musk has recently been more vocal about supporting Republicans, but he's donated to lawmakers from …