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A composite image of the planet Venus as seen by the Japanese probe Akatsuki. (Akatsuki Orbiter built by Institute of Space and Astronautical Science/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)

Life May Exist Among the Clouds of Venus

April 3, 2018

The search for extraterrestrial life has included examining the possibilities within and outside of the solar system. It has been thought that Mars and a couple of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter may hold the chance of having ET life. It’s also thought by some that a number of Earthlike extrasolar or exoplanets residing […]

NASA Lunar Explorer Has Smashing End

April 18, 2014

NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, or LADEE mission had a smashing ending early Friday morning when the US space agency crashed the spacecraft into the moon’s surface. The ground controllers, monitoring the spacecraft’s operations from NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, confirmed that it impacted the lunar surface as planned sometime […]

Scientists Strike ‘Scientific Gold’ in California

December 21, 2012

While in space and orbiting the sun this celestial body is an asteroid. It’s a meteor as its entering earth’s atmosphere, like a fireball flashing across the sky and a meteorite is the actual object that made it to Earth.

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