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NASA’s Curiosity news: Mars sustained life for millions of years

Data collected from the Curiosity rover suggest Mars was capable of sustaining life in the past for periods that could span tens or hundreds of...

New Horizons discovers clouds in Pluto, aims at next target

The New Frontiers program keeps finding new things in our cosmos. NASA scientists have received a new batch of data from the New Horizons...

How are the world’s space agencies preparing for Mars Mission?

Space agencies around the world like NASA, the ESA, Roscosmos, and Mars One announced their plans to join efforts ahead of future missions to...
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NASA will send an unmanned probe to study 16 Psyche in...

According to recent reports, NASA has been planning a mission to explore the gigantic asteroid '16 Psyche,' comprised almost entirely of metal. The agency...

Dinosaur extinction by meteor might have caused birth of sea volcanoes

If you ever wondered how the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and three-quarters of life on Earth managed to do so, there is...

ExoMars gets first images of Mars as ESA aims at more...

On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) received the first images from ExoMars’ TGO spacecraft. The pictures show incredible detail of Mars' surface features,...

NASA’s Peggy Whitson arrives at ISS, becomes oldest female astronaut

On Saturday, the Soyuz capsule carrying the astronauts Oleg Novitskiy, Thomas Pesquet, and Peggy Whitson arrived and docked at the International Space Station. With...
JWST Discovers Carbon-Dioxide in Exoplanet Outside Our Solar System

JWST Discovers Carbon-Dioxide in Exoplanet Outside Our Solar System

The James Web Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in an exoplanet outside our solar system. Named the WASP-39b, the exoplanet is 700 light-years...

Orangutan discovery overshadowed by impending extinction

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. announced the discovery of a new great...

Fossil footprints suggest humans used to hunt giant sloths

A newly discovered fossil shows that about 11,000 years ago, giant 7-feet tall (2.1 meters) sloths roamed the earth while being stalked by ancient...