Mercury is one of the four rocky worlds of the Solar System, yet its chemistry is very different from Earth, Venus, and Mars. Missions to the planet show that it
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Building on America’s 65-Year Legacy of Human Spaceflight
America’s first human spaceflight begins as the Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) space vehicle, with astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. aboard, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 5, 1961. NASA On
NASA’S Juno Misson Captures Jupiter Moon Thebe
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New NASA HEAT Coloring Book Blends Art, Science, and Cultural Perspectives
A new Sun-centered and science-focused coloring book produced by NASA in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) is now available for people to learn while showing their artistic
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WASHINGTON — The Space Rapid Capabilities Office selected three companies to develop sensors designed to help U.S. military satellites in geosynchronous orbit detect when they are being tracked from the
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Binary stars are common, but for a long time astronomers have thought that exoplanets would have trouble forming around them. In recent years, powerful telescopes have detected about 50 of
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