Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot is a huge cyclonic storm big enough to swallow the Earth. But it's been getting smaller over time, while other storms have been growing. What does the future hold for this Jupiterricane?
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We toast the 40th anniversary of the dual Viking missions to Mars this week. Time to celebrate an achievement that gave us our first visceral feeling of standing on another planet.
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Looking for a way to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission landing on the Moon? Here are a few different ways look back on this historic event and take advantage of advances in technology or new data.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Following a flawless post midnight blastoff two mornings ago, a pair of NASA astronauts executed a flawless capture of the newest SpaceX Dragon supply ship at International Space Station early this morning, July 20, carrying 2.5 tons of priceless research equipment and gear for the resident astronauts and cosmonauts.
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Venus' orbit has some strange properties, which includes taking 243.025 days to rotate once, and the fact that it rotates backwards compared to Earth
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Some of the greatest discoveries in astronomy have been made by watching how the skies change over time. Today we talk about these techniques, and an observatory that will revolutionize time-based astronomy.
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Hosting an evening star party this summer? Then you're in for a treat. Starting this week, all five naked eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) are visible in the evening sky at dusk for a bried few weeks.
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As part of their Journey to Mars, NASA has unveiled the compact exercise system its astronauts will use to stay healthy during the trip
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Located in the constellation of Ophiuchus, some 28,700,000 light years from Earth, lies the faint globular cluster known as Messier 19
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A look at the Solar Systems largest planet (Jupiter) and how it stacks up in terms of size, mass, satellites, and composition to our home planet
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Get ready to tune in the Red Planet on your earbuds. NASA recently announced that it would include a microphone in its Mars 2020 Mission.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The outlook is outstanding for a dramatic midnight blastoff of the next SpaceX commercial cargo Dragon jam packed with some 5000 pounds of critical payloads and research supplies for NASA and heading to the space station on Monday, July 18 - that also simultaneously features an experimental land landing that promises to rock loudly across the Florida space coast and one day slash launch costs.
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After a decade of research, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey has released the most detailed 3D map of the Universe to date
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Images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have spotted a growing dark region called a coronal hole, which is the cause of high-speed solar winds that can disrupt satellite communications.
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In the northern skies, flanked by the Big Dipper, lies the Bootes constellation, one of the traditional constellations listed by Ptolemy
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Using carbon nanotubes, a team of NASA engineers has created a series of revolutionary new telescope mirrors for a Cubesat telescope
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