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Moon Mining Mission To Be Launched By Private Company For First Time Ever In 2020

Privately owned Moon Express is planning to bring back a scoop of lunar soil — and sell it for profit.

Water On Mars: Rock Samples Show How Environment Changed Over Time

As Mars was changing from a comfortable planet with a thick atmosphere and lots of water into a dry and cold wasteland, these rocks captured evidence of those environmental changes.

Will An Asteroid Hit Earth? NASA Discovers 10 'Potentially Hazardous' Objects

That's in addition to another 96 newly discovered space rocks and an unexplained increase in comet activity.

6 Amazing NASA Cassini Images That Illuminate Saturn, Its Moons

The Cassini spacecraft has sent back a ton of images and data to NASA and Earth during its time in the outer solar system. Here’s a look back at some of the most amazing photos.

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Water On Mars: Here’s How Much Flowed In Ancient Ocean, Rivers On Planet

Ancient Mars could have had enough water to fill up a large ocean and many rivers flowing into it.

Human Space Colony On Mars Would Be Awful Idea, ESA Chief Says

Living in a colony on Mars sounds like it would be fun, but in reality it would be a terrible lifestyle, the head of the European Space Agency says.

6 Dangerous Objects Lurking Near Earth

Events on Earth like tornadoes and earthquakes are nothing compared to the dangers of our solar system, our galaxy and our universe.

Planet With Huge Rings Eclipses Star In Orion, Moons May Harbor Aliens

A massive planet with rings larger than Saturn’s keeps eclipsing its young star and might have moons that are the right temperature to support alien life.

NASA Setting Space Fires For Science Out Of Earth’s Gravity Aboard ISS

A fire burns differently in space, so NASA is going to light up the space station to watch the flames burn — for purely scientific reasons, of course.

When Did The First Animals Evolve? New Study Debunks 1.2-Billion Year Contention

The answer has been debated for a long time, and using different techniques, has wavered between 500 million years ago to almost 1.5 billion years ago.

How Humans On Mars Could Evolve Into A New Species

Humans settling Mars or living in a space colony might evolve into a new species much faster than they would have on Earth, assuming they can avoid the dangers of inbreeding.

Volcanoes On Jupiter’s Moon Io Make Auroras, Not Sun’s Electric Storms

Jupiter has such powerful auroras because they come from volcanoes erupting on its moon Io, rather than the sun’s storms that create northern lights on planet Earth.

Telescope Catches Space Rocks Crashing Into Moon To Understand Earth’s Meteors

A new telescope is trained on the moon to capture meteors crashing as part of an effort to understand asteroids and other space rocks that could strike Earth.

Fossils Of Beetles Trapped In Asphalt Show L.A.’s Prehistoric Climate Environment

Scientists figured out how old beetle fossils were to learn about the prehistoric climate of Los Angeles, and it looks like it was the same as it is today.

Amateurs Spot Supernova Star Explosion For Space Scientists Studying Universe

A couple of average Joes helped scientists find a supernova, an exploding star so bright that it casts light upon the universe and shows us the answers to its biggest mysteries.

NASA Rocket Launch Carries Mars Rover Designs Students Engineered For Space

NASA launched some student-designed Mars rover robots into space on a rocket to see how well they would travel in Earth’s atmosphere.

Earth Rock Temperature Shows Planet’s Lava Is Hot As Ever

Earth was really hot when it was younger, but a recent lava and rock analysis suggests that it’s still bringing the heat deep down in its mantle.

New Zealand’s Rocket Lab Wants To Launch Space Satellites Into Earth Orbit Every Week

New Zealand is hoping to send a rocket into space every week, carrying satellites into low-Earth orbit and joining the other countries that have launched into the atmosphere.

Is Elon Musk A Genius? SpaceX Founder Is One Of The Smartest People On Earth

Could Musk keep smart company with the brightest of the bright folks and even best them? Absolutely.

4 Black Hole Images From NASA: Portraits Of The Universe’s Best Killer

Black holes are notorious serial starkillers, so good at what they do that we don’t even have photos of them, just the NASA version of police sketches.

River Flow On Saturn Moon Titan More Like Mars Than Earth

The rivers on Titan, Saturn’s biggest moon, flow across its landscape the way they used to on Mars before it dried up, so Titan may not be as similar to Earth as we thought.

Did Earth’s Atmosphere Come From Comets While Solar System, Planet Was Forming?

Comets may have delivered Earth’s atmosphere while it was forming and made it the planet we love today.

Earth’s Space Weather Can Storm From Nuclear Explosions In Planet’s Atmosphere

Humans affected space weather, in a way usually reserved for the sun when the U.S. and the Soviet Union exploded nuclear bombs in the atmosphere during the Cold War.

Colonies On Mars: How Human Faces Will Evolve On The Red Planet

A human space colony on Mars or another planet may evolve into a different race if we leave inhabitants alone to breed.

Earth’s Rock History Shows Flat Planet Covered In Ocean Before Life Formed

Young Earth did not have the surface shape it has today. Scientists say it was probably pretty flat and almost completely covered in ocean.

NASA Will Launch Telescope To Search For Alien Life In Other Solar Systems

NASA is testing its new telescope in a frigid vacuum to prep it for launch and its search for aliens on planets in other solar systems.

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