Space

Check Out the New Mars Rover Concept Vehicle

In the last 40 years, NASA has successfully operated six unmanned landing craft and vehicles on the Martian surface. Now the space agency has created the next rover that will make it to the Red

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NASA Is Heading To the Sun For the First Time

NASA has sent spacecraft to every planet in our solar system, including some moons and other celestial objects. But next summer the American space agency will send a ship somewhere it never has before: The

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One Of Saturn’s Moons Looks Just Like the Death Star

NASA recently released a curious new photo of Tethys, one of Saturn’s moons that looks suspiciously like the Death Star, that planet-destroying weapon from the Star Wars series. Tethys is a 660-mile-wide moon that’s made mostly

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All About NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission

This month NASA launches its OSIRIS-REx mission, an epic seven-year journey that will send a spacecraft to a remote asteroid called Bennu. Why Bennu? At 4 billion years old, it is one of the oldest

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Watch the Perseids Meteor Shower Peak on Aug. 11-12

Each August, the Swift-Tuttle comet lights up the nighttime sky, displaying a beautiful light show for all us Earthlings. How? When pieces of the comet hurl into our atmosphere at 132,000 MPH, they create streaks