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The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

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What is space weather, what causes it, and how does it affect humans? Physicist Robyn Millan, who co-chaired a recent ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

The difference is that Bennu’s chemical footprint dates back to the start of the solar system 4.6 billion ... Goddard space ...

These minerals are also found on icy bodies in the outer solar system. Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest ...

These minerals are also found on icy bodies in the outer solar system. Bright deposits on the dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the asteroid belt ... These included CT scanning, electron ...

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s actually happening! Starting from January 25, 2025, a rare planetary alignment will take place, where Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, and ...

For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a cameo in the planetary parade which is running all this month and next.