A powerful Long March 5 rocket took off Thursday with a Chinese orbiter, lander, and rover on a seven-month trip to Mars, the second of three high-risk missions on the Red Planet and one that, if successful, It will put China on the front lines of interplanetary exploration. China did …
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Neowise, one of the brightest comets in decades, has brought with it an impressive trail of debris this month, delighting sky watchers from around the world. Its closest approach to Earth arrives today, July 22, at a distance of approximately 64 million miles. Throughout July, the newly discovered comet, formally …
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At the end of March, A team of astronomers working on a space telescope mission called Neowise discovered a comet that reserved it beyond the sun, 160 million miles from Earth. The comet, officially known as C / 2020 F3 but generally known as Neowise, is a 3-mile-long chunk of …
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On this day in 1969, Americans Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon. They were the first of a select group of Americans to be the only humans to do so. Fast forward to more recent times: In May, the world saw …
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On Tuesday's spacewalk, NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken will remove two lifting devices used for ground processing of the station's solar panels before launch. They will also begin preparing the Tranquility module for the installation of a commercial airlock scheduled to arrive on a SpaceX cargo flight later …
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