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China’s Plans for a Moon Base are in Motion
China is steadily marching toward the moon. They successfully landed the uncrewed Chang’e-4 on the far side of the moon, ...
NASA: Can the Lunar Dust Problem be Solved With Electromagnetic Shields?
NASA may bring humans back to the surface of the moon as soon as 2024. And, if they do, lunar ...
NASA Mars 2020 Rover Undergoing Tests and Assembly for Launch
NASA is hard at work getting the Mars 2020 Rover ready to launch next summer. In a “clean room” at ...
NASA’s Cassini Reveals Saturn’s Secrets From the Grave
Cassini’s Grand Finale is the gift that keeps on giving. NASA deliberately crashed the spacecraft into Saturn’s atmosphere as it ...
NASA’s Fermi Satellite Records Speed of Super Fast ‘Cannonball’ Pulsar
Astronomers have known about a pulsar (superdense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes) nicknamed J2002 ...
NASA Is Home Brewing Alien Atmospheres
NASA researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California are studying how planets and solar systems might form. They’re ...
Moon Rocks From Apollo Missions to be Unsealed for Study
NASA astronauts from the Apollo missions that landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972 collected moon rocks and brought ...
Hubble and Gaia Have Partnered to Find the Mass of the Milky Way
Astronomers are very interested in figuring out the true mass of our home galaxy. Knowing the mass of the Milky ...
NASA Announces First All-Female Spacewalk!
NASA announced today that history will be made on March 29th when the first all-woman spacewalk will take place . ...
SpaceX Crew Dragon Test Flight to International Space Station Scheduled for March 2
NASA and SpaceX officials announced on Friday that their test flight of the Crew Dragon Capsule to the International Space ...
NASA’s Opportunity Rover Has Given Up the Ghost
NASA gave it one last shot on Tuesday night. They sent one final signal to their well-loved Opportunity Rover (Oppy) ...
Japan Has Launched a Satellite to Provide Human-Made Meteor Showers
Fireworks are so 20th century. Japan is thinking bigger. And higher. The start-up Astro Live Experiences (ALE) has taken it upon ...
See the Last ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ in 18 Years This Sunday Night
A Super Blood Wolf Moon will appear in the sky only three times this century. One of them is this ...
CHIME Astronomers Discover Peculiar Repeating Fast Radio Burst in Space
Canadian astronomers have a new toy. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is their recently unveiled radio telescope. And, it ...
Scientist/Rockstar Brian May of QUEEN Releases Single in Honor of NASA New Horizons Flyby
Did you know that astrophysicist Brian May is a rockstar? Did you know that rockstar Brian May is an astrophysicist? ...
