No lander has survived for even 2 hours on Venus. But the Venus Land Sail should last 50 days.
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At a recent symposium in the Netherlands, representatives from the European Space Agency discussed plans to build a village on the Moon!
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and his Russian cohort Mikhail Kornienko successful returned to Earth late Tuesday night (March 1), after spending nearly a year in space aboard the space station on a mission to gauge the limits of human endurance in microgravity and blaze a path forward to eventual human expeditions to the Red Planet.
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After 340 placid days in space, the return to Earth will be punctuated by a 25 minute free-fall, extreme heat, deployment of a drogue chute, and the firing of rockets.
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Future supersonic passenger aircraft could be quieter, greener, and cheaper to operate if NASA's new X-Plane program gets off the ground.
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Get ready for Jupiter's opposition for the year, with our complete guide to observing the largest planet in 2016.
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A new study produced by researchers from the University of Innsbruck proposes that black holes might be the reason for the Universe's "missing matter"
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL - Following a pair of back to back launch scrubs this week on Wednesday and Thursday due to rocket fueling issues with the liquid oxygen propellant, SpaceX has reset the blast off of their upgraded Falcon 9 rocket - carrying the commercial SES-9 television and communications satellite - to coincidentally coincide with a serene sunset on Sunday, Feb. 28.
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By measuring a fast radio burst (FRB) coming from space, a team of CSIRO scientists claims to have accounted for the "missing matter" of the Universe
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We turn our gaze away from Pluto's "heart" to explore the ancient ice canyons of its north polar region.
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With the recent milestone achieved by the New Horizons mission, many are contemplating what our next space exploration goal should be
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US astronomers announced last month they may have found a ninth planet beyond Neptune, but conceded they had no idea where on an estimated 10,000-20,000-year orbit it might be.
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Now that Advanced LIGO has made the first direct detection of gravitational waves, what does the future of gravitational wave astronomy hold in store?
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Pluto has been explored, and now the USPS has released new stamps to celebrate this accomplishment. And that's not all, more planets, the Moon and Star Trek?
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