OTD In Space - November 18: NASA Launches MAVEN To Mars

On November 18, 2013, NASA launched the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars. The name MAVEN stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile ...

NASA’s latest ESCAPADE is sending twin low-cost orbiters to examine Mars’ atmosphere

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...
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Space pollution levels in the atmosphere are rocketing

More metal than ever is entering the upper atmosphere because of space traffic, with unknown effects on climate ...

NASA is sending probes to Mars to find out why it lost its atmosphere – and what that could mean for Earth

Mars is a cold, dry, desert-like planet. But billions of years ago, scientific evidence suggests that it had a thick ...
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In a First, Astronomers Saw a Distant Star Shoot Some of Its Plasma Into Space

The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...

Solar storms can trigger auroras on Earth. This star’s explosion could destroy a planet’s atmosphere

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to ...

Space debris seen over the First Coast Saturday morning

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Early risers got a glimpse of a celestial treat over the First Coast Saturday morning around 6:17 a.m. A ...

This Red Dwarf Just Launched a Planet-Killing Blast Into Space

Astronomers have, for the first time, confirmed a colossal coronal mass ejection from a distant star, a blast so powerful it could strip the atmosphere from any nearby planet. Astronomers using the Eu ...