In 2007, NASA launched the Dawn mission to explore the Asteroid Belt between the planets of Mars and Jupiter. The Dawn spacecraft was employed to study two
The World Economic Forum (WEF) took place in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday and brought positive news for the environment: Norway, backed by Nestle, Mars,
Ceres, once known to be the largest asteroid in the Asteroid Belt in between Mars and Jupiter, was re-classified as a dwarf planet in recent years, making
While astronomers studied the asteroid belt in between Mars and Jupiter with the Hubble Space Telescope over the course of several years, they came across
Mercury, the first planet from the Sun - The Forgotten Planet. With the search for life beyond Earth primarily focusing on Mars and the rest of the solar s
Spaceflight is being marketed as a tourist opportunity for exorbitantly wealthy people, and lengthy space missions that could take astronauts to Mars are b
Over the weekend, NASA received some of the first radio signals from a pair of deep space-bound CubeSats that are collectively known as MarCO. Amusingly, t
NASA engineers have been racing against the clock to finish building the Perseverance rover in time for the opportunistic launch window that opens up this
In an array of studies, one published in Science Advances and two published in Science, a large international team of researchers discuss how the recen
Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust called a solar nebula that swirled around, eventually collaps
NASA is very interested in learning exactly how long term space missions affect the human body, and thanks to the experiment involving the Kelly twins, Mar
In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, a pair of researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have both identified and confirmed
As we inch closer to the launch date of the ExoMars 2020 rover, experts from the European Space Agency (ESA) are now considering just where we should try t
Stephen Hawking is known for his sometimes-adventurous remarks, but the latest in his observational comments involves the time mankind has remaining to dev
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