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NASA wants to send a mission to Venus. Proposed to launch in 2026, the mission Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography & Spectroscopy, or VERITAS, aims to investigate how Earth and Venus, which started in very similar ways, evolved to be very different today. “Venus is like this cosmic gift …

Many people think they are aware of all the coronavirus symptoms that people commonly experience, and the CDC lists all the typical symptoms of COVID-19 on its website. Unfortunately, there is also a list of much more severe symptoms that hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are experiencing. A coronavirus …

Archaeologists at a former burial site in Jordan thought that one of his team members could suffer heat stroke when he suggested some flints that he found could represent people. But now their discovery could change the way scientists think about the Neolithic Near East. More than 100 of the …

WASHINGTON – NASA announced on July 9 two new directives on planetary protection for missions to the moon and Mars that implement the recommendations of an independent review board last year. The two directives, announced by NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine during a “Moon Dialogues” webinar, are part of a NASA …

One of the conspiracy theories that have plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. But the vast majority of scientists who have studied the virus agree that it evolved naturally and crossed humans from an animal species, …