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NASA's new Mars mission: These twin satellites could reveal how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere

Mars is about to receive a double dose of attention. This weekend, a pair of identical NASA satellites will launch together ...

Meet Blue and Gold: NASA’s first twin satellites bound for Mars

ESCAPADE is overseen by the University of California Berkeley, who named the spacecraft’s onboard satellites Blue and Gold ...
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NASA Discovers 7 New Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy

The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal NASA’s discovery of seven new Earth-like planets in our galaxy. This finding expands ...
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Mysterious 3I/ATLAS object leads NASA and Harvard to take unprecedented action in space

As 3I/ATLAS races through our solar system, NASA and Harvard take unprecedented action to study its bizarre anti-tail and ...

NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars—twin satellites dubbed Blue and Gold will launch in early November

The first dual-satellite mission to another planet, NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers), is scheduled for launch no earlier than Sunday, Nov. 9, from Cape Canaveral ...
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NASA explains how they will handle Mars rock samples when they are returned to Earth

NASA’s Mars rover collected rock samples that could reveal if the planet once hosted life. Here’s what scientists plan to do ...

3I/ATLAS Hype Debunked—NASA Explains Why It Won't Collide With Earth

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is passing safely through our solar system. Learn about its discovery, its distant path, and why ...

NASA’s Webb Just Found a Hidden Moon Factory Beyond Our Solar System

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.
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Aging stars destroy their planets more often than we thought: What does this mean for Earth?

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

How to Follow the Trajectory of Comet 3I/Atlas

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas reached its closest point to the sun. Here's how to follow the rest of its journey away from ...

Visit Our Solar System’s Tallest Mountains

On Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanically active world—you’ll find the mountain Ionian Mons. Its height is estimated at nearly 8 miles. All in all, scientists have discovered more than ...