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NASA announces lunar rover, other moon base mission providers
Pluto takes about 248 Earth years to circle the Sun, which means it still hasn’t completed a single orbit since we found it — and won’t finish that first lap until the year 2178
Explore The Wonders Of Our Solar System: Unique Facts About Every Planet Unveiled
The first humans on Mars will not just be explorers crossing a red desert. They will be radiation workers, dust-control technicians and weather-watchers on a planet where the danger is less dramatic than constant.
It is impossible to burp in space, because in microgravity the human stomach cannot separate gas from the liquid and partially digested food it sits inside, and any attempt to burp expels a mixture of all three directly into the astronaut’s mouth.
A total solar eclipse is only possible because of a cosmic coincidence: the Moon is about 400 times smaller than the Sun but also about 400 times closer, making the two look almost the same size from Earth. But the Moon is slowly drifting away, so this alignment will not last forever. One day, hundreds of millions of years from now, the last total solar eclipse will pass across the planet, and no one will ever see the Moon fully cover the Sun again.
Why do some stars become 'supernova impostors'? Astronomers still don't quite know
The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn’t have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the universe might actually be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice the standard estimate
Fascinating Lives Of Famous Gemini Male Stars Who Keep The World Entertained And Inspired
There are millions of objects in our own solar system that have never been seen and the facility that will find them is now just months from starting its decade-long survey
Astronauts on the ISS lose about 1-2% of their bone density per month in microgravity — meaning a six-month mission costs them as much bone mass as a postmenopausal woman loses in a year — and the countermeasures NASA developed to slow that loss are now being studied as treatments for osteoporosis patients on the ground
Europe to Witness First Total Solar Eclipse Since 1999
The Surprising Science Behind Moon-Driven Tides And Their Impact On Earth’s Oceans
Neutron stars are so dense that a sugar-cube-sized piece would weigh as much as Mount Everest — and they spin so fast that some complete a rotation 700 times per second
NASA just released 12,000 photos from Artemis 2. Here are our top picks
From New Moon To Full: Fascinating Facts About The Ever-Changing Lunar Cycle
In 1979, Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter’s moon Io and revealed active volcanoes erupting beyond Earth for the first time — turning a small Jovian moon into one of the most geologically surprising worlds in the solar system
Why Border Collies Are The Ultimate Four-Legged Companions For The Energetic Gemini Soul
JWST resolved a galaxy from 800 million years after the Big Bang while NEO Surveyor — the only NASA mission Congress has required by statute — remains roughly 30 years behind its city-killer catalog deadline, and the gap is a lesson in what makes a problem fundable inside the same agency
Voyager 2 flew past Neptune in 1989 and detected faint hints of auroras it couldn’t explain — because the magnetic field is tilted 47 degrees off the rotation axis and the auroras were glowing in entirely the wrong place
