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Scientists Make Sturdy Bricks From Mars-Like Soils

Their findings may be a step forward in the mission to build structures on the Red Planet

Raw image of the storm on Saturn's north pole

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Cassini Sends Back First Images From Its Saturn Dives

The stream of raw images include new pictures of the strange hexagonal storm swirling around its north pole

An artist's rendering imagines what Cassini must have looked like as it headed on the first of a series of orbits between Saturn and its rings.

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Cassini Makes a Daring Dive

The spacecraft is out of contact as it begins a series of dramatic orbits between Saturn and its rings

An artist's rendering of a meteor passing over the British Isles in 1783. Unlike the L'Aigle meteor a few decades later, the meteorites from this event were not witnessed falling to the ground, and thus meteorites remained a scientific mystery for another 20 years.

Scientists Didn’t Believe in Meteorites Until 1803

The l’Aigle meteorite fall involved more than 3,000 pieces of rock and numerous witnesses, and it changed everything

An artist's rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Meet the Successor to Hubble That Will Peer Through Time

NASA’s next giant space telescope is due to launch next year

NASA technicians and engineers place a tent over the folded-up James Webb Space Telescope to protect it from dust and dirt once it leaves the "clean room" and proceeds to acoustic and vibrational testing.

Watch Scientists Freeze and Shake the James Webb Space Telescope

The largest space telescope ever built has a few last tests to pass

An illustration of LHS 1140b orbiting its faint red star

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Exoplanet Discovery Arrives in Time for New Telescope Technology

Astronomers call LHS 1140b one of the “best targets” for hunting liquid water with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

A composite image of asteroid 2014 JO25 created with data from NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar.

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Watch a Large Asteroid Streak Through the Night Sky

Only a small telescope will be needed

The super bloom draped California's Walker Canyon in a riot of colors.

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California’s Lush Super Bloom Is Even More Stunning From Space

Satellite images captured an explosion of flowers stretching across California’s desert hills

Artist's rendering of what DeeDee may look like

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Meet DeeDee, the Solar System’s Newest Dwarf Planet (Maybe)

Though the tiny icy orb meets all the criteria, it has yet to receive the official designation

Illustration of the water plumes coming off of Enceledus

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NASA Detects Microbe-Friendly Food Spouting From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus

The Cassini spacecraft has detected the ingredients for life in sprays from the icy world

An artist's rendition of Maven as it spies on Mars' atmosphere.

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Mars Has Metal in Its Atmosphere

Metallic ions have a permanent presence in the red planet’s atmosphere—kind of like on Earth

Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed the Rocky Mountains from his vantage point in low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station.

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NASA Puts Earth Up for Adoption

Pockmarks, wrinkles, and all

Scientists Capture Beautiful, Explosive Collision of Young Stars

The high-resolution images could hold clues about the early stages of star formation

This snapshot shows Jupiter's swirling, banded atmosphere and signature vortices.

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“Great Cold Spot” Discovered on Jupiter

The ancient storm was hiding in plain sight

Sergei Korolev was technically still a political prisoner when he began working on the Soviet rocket program.

The First Manned Space Flight Was the Rocket Designer’s Victory as Much as Yuri Gagarin’s

Sergei Korolev designed the entire Soviet rocket program. But nobody knew his name until after he died

Uranus and its aurora

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Take a Peek at the Auroras on Uranus

This composite image gives the best view yet of the seventh planet’s atmospheric lights and ring

This snapshot shows Jupiter's swirling, banded atmosphere and signature vortices.

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Hubble Snags Splendid Snapshot of Jupiter

The perfect photographic conditions make for a grand view of the gas giant

SpaceX launches it's first re-used Falcon 9 rocket

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Watch SpaceX’s Recycled Rocket Stick Its Landing

The reused Falcon 9 booster rocket may usher in an era of cheaper and more frequent trips into space

Behold the glory of the middle of the Milky Way—thanks to an even better photo database at NASA.

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NASA Launches the Galaxy’s Most Glorious Space Database

Now you can easily peruse more than 140,000 of the agency’s photos, videos and visualizations

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