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Ice Deposits on Ceres Might Only Be a Few Thousand Years Old

The dwarf planet Ceres has some permanently dark craters that hold ice. Astronomers thought the ice…

Researchers quantify the ideal in situ construction method for lunar habitats

Based on the technical mechanisms of bonding and cohesion between particles, regolith solidification and formation technologies…

55 Years Ago: Three Months Until the Moon Landing

The rapid pace of preparations for the first Moon landing continued in April 1969. The successful…

NASA’s Juno Gives Aerial Views of Mountain, Lava Lake on Io

This animation is an artist’s concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io,…

The Mystery of Cosmic Rays Deepens

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles accelerated to extreme velocities approaching the speed of light. It takes…

Water Touches Everything – NASA

The ocean holds about 97 percent of Earth’s water and covers 70 percent of our planet’s…

Water Touches Everything – NASA

Real satellite imagery from NASA’s Terra, Aqua, and Landsat missions takes the shape of whales and…

Jupiter’s moon Io has been a volcanic inferno for billions of years

Io, Jupiter’s innermost moon, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system Joshimer Binas/Alamy…

NASA Confirms that a Piece of its Battery Pack Smashed into a Florida Home

NASA is in the business of launching things into orbit. But what goes up must come…