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Humans on Mars

Bill Nye: NASA Can Bring Humans to Mars by 2033

Scientists believe they now have an idea of how to execute a long-term and cost effective, manned Mars program.

Ball Aerospace & Technologies

Ball Aerospace Instrument to Measure Amount of Rain and Snow

The high-tech storm watch will track weather from the air and on the ground.

Hubble Telescope

NASA to Celebrate Hubble's 25th Year

The telescope helped in mapping the large-scale, three-dimensional distribution of dark matter.

A network of two-tone mineral veins

Curiosity Rover Spots 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Mineral Rocks on Mars

Curiosity analyzed numerous rock samples from three different locations found in the lower regions of Mount Sharp.

Quasar Ghosts

NASA's Hubble Snaps the Enigmatic 'Quasar Ghosts'

The glowing structures have looping, helical, and braided shapes. Scientists said they don’t fit a single pattern.

Ants

Ants at the International Space Station Adapt Well to Zero Gravity

Scientists also wanted to see if the colony could function properly without the usual stabilization they have on Earth.

Forgetful Opportunity

Amnesia on Mars: NASA Opportunity Rover's Memory is Failing Yet Again

NASA engineers have announced the Opportunity rover is again suffering from memory lapses after a software upgrade.

Rhea's two faces

Cassini Reveals First Hyper Color Images of Saturn's Mysterious Moon Rhea

NASA/ESA's Cassini probe has captured its first ever, colored composite images of Rhea during a close flyby.

The NASA flying saucer

It's Real: NASA Tests New 'Flying Saucer' for Mars

The flying saucer-shaped vehicle measures 15 feet across and weighs 7,000 pounds.

Planet with two suns

Star Wars' 'Tatooine' Planets are a Mathematical Possibility, Study Suggests

Earthlike, solid planets such as Tatooine may exist and may even be common.

Surface burn marks

Mars Curiosity Rover's Landing Zone Scars have Mysteriously Darkened

NASA scientists are trying to figure out why Curiosity rover's landing blast zones darkened instead of fading away.

Three of Expedition 43's crew

Astronauts Begin One Year Mission in Space; NASA Studies Twins in Space and Earth

Kelly and Kornienko, however, will remain there for an entire year and will return to Earth via a Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.

Galaxy clusters

Colliding Galaxies Reveal Secret Properties of Dark Matter

This leads to the idea that dark matter doesn't totally interact with visible particles surrounding it, which was the previous theory.

The Moon

NASA: Moon to Have its Own Moon to Prepare for Mars Colony

This mission is only one of two under consideration to develop new technologies and equipment for future manned Mars missions.

Opportunity's Martian trek

Opportunity Mars Rover Completes a Marathon on Another World

Opportunity has traversed the Martian terrain for 26.221 miles since landing on the Red Planet on January 24, 2004.

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