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Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...
A budget proposal released on May 2 includes not only cuts to NASA's science budget, but an early end to its SLS moon rocket.
As the second-largest object in the main asteroid belt, Vesta attracts a healthy amount of scientific interest.
The White House budget proposal aims to discontinue NASA's Space Launch System (SLS ... Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. "The Budget funds a program to replace SLS and Orion flights ...
Vesta might be a shattered remnant of an early planet, not a failed one—forcing scientists to rethink how worlds begin.
NASA has detected a strange, unidentified object orbiting the Sun, sparking intrigue and speculation across the scientific ...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a rare partial solar eclipse in April, unobservable from Earth, where the moon obscured 23% of the sun. The SDO, launched in 2010, provides high ...
Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers achieved most of their planned tasks on today's (May 1) 5-hour, 44-minute extravehicular ...
Reference Explore the eight (or nine) planets of the solar system in order from nearest to the sun and discover the many wonders of our solar system along the way. An object seen to have moved in the ...
Before Perseverance was launched, NASA equipped it with nine bits: one for Martian soil, two for removing the dust-covered ...