Expect the Unexpected From the Rosetta Mission
An image snapped earlier this month by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft shows its target comet has quietened, demonstrating the unpredictable nature of these enigmatic objects. The picture…
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“The Avengers” Exhibit Demos NASA Science and Tech
A new exhibit steeped in the cinematic world of “The Avengers” provides a super-powered dose of science and technology from NASA. The unique, interactive educational display…
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Mars InSight Lander Construction Gets Go-Ahead
NASA and its international partners now have the go-ahead to begin construction on a new Mars lander, after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review…
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NASA to Host Deep Space Network Social Media Event
About 50 people from 11 U.S. states will attend a two-day NASA Social, to be held April 1 at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,…
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Celestron’s FirstScope Telescope
This is an entry level scope that is highly recommended for anyone who is taking their first steps into astronomy. Given the lack of any computerized…
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Mapping the Milky Way – New “Journey to a Billion Suns” Planetarium Show Shows How
A new planetarium show, Journey to a billion Suns, premieres today in Hamburg, Germany, to tell the fascinating story of mapping the Milky Way, from ancient…
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Venus and Moon in Conjunction on Sept. 8
The moon orbits the Earth and the Earth, along with the other planets in the solar system, orbit the sun. Any alignment of the objects in…
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Carl Sagan’s Iconic “Cosmos” Series Soon to Be Reborn
33 years ago, a seminal cosmology series hit TV screens. That was the PBS produced Cosmos series hosted by Carl Sagan. If you’re under 30, you…
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Science to Meet Art High in Orbit
Inspired by the dream of space exploration, artist Katie Paterson imagined sending a piece of her meteorite artwork back to space in a celebration of science,…
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Life Could Actually Be Older Than Earth Itself
Applying a maxim from computer science to biology raises the intriguing possibility that life existed before Earth did and may have originated outside our solar system,…
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