Learn how NASA’s satellite fleet helps provide weather Information for the missions on the surface of Mars. <b<br/>r/>

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Most defining moments of Elon Musk, the businessman and investor. <b<br/>r/>

Elon Musk's Most Controversial Actions

How to create a rave style patch with The Moog Matriarch

Can two versions of reality exist at the same time? Physicists say they can — at the quantum level, that is.

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412.



Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max-Planck-Institut...

The Polaris Dawn crew Jared Isaacman, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon explain the experiments conducted during the mission. Also, see a time-lapse of Isaacman's spacewalk.



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Civil War myths both big and small persist to this day. LiveScience clears up a few.

Chinese astronaut conduct a spherical flame experiment during an orbit to ground space lecture using a match and a candle. <b<br/>r/>

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Institute of Space Environment and Material Science at Harbin Institute of Technology has a chamber that can create the "environment similar to the lunar surface," according to China Central Television.



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Chinese astronauts demonstrate hair cuts on aboard the Tiangong space station with a specially designed hair trimmer affixed with a vacuum to collect hair.



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"Two Uranus years (one Uranus year is 84.02 Earth years), running from 1900 to 2068 and starting just before southern summer solstice, when Uranus’s south pole points almost directly towards the Sun," have been animated to show seasonal...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket.



ESCAPADE will study how the "solar wind interacts with Mars’...

NASA's Curiosity rover has encountered patches of sharp “gator-back” rocks causing mission planners to look for a new route to continue exploring Mount Sharp.



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The solar system is projecting with gold but scientists can't quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being created.

On Sept. 20, 1970, the Soviet Union's Luna 16 moon probe landed on the moon to retrieve a soil sample.



Four days later, it became the first robotic spacecraft to return a sample of lunar soil to Earth. Luna 16 was the first...

On Sept. 18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon.



It was the first time both the Earth and the moon were captured in a single frame. At the time, Voyager 1 was more than 7 million miles away...

The magnetic barrier that protects Earthlings from radiation almost collapsed some 565 million years ago. Here’s what saved it.

The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. <b<br/>r/>

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On Sept. 12, 1992, NASA astronaut Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to go to space.



In NASA's early days, women and people of color were never selected to go to space. NASA didn't send a woman to space...

On Sept. 11, 1985, the International Cometary Explorer, or "ICE" became the first spacecraft to fly by a comet.



Originally launched as the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 in 1978, ICE was one of three spacecraft built for...

On Sept. 10, 2011, NASA's GRAIL spacecraft launched on a mission to the moon! GRAIL, which stands for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, was sent to the moon to map its gravitational fields.



Scientists could study the...

On Sept. 9, 1982, the first private rocket launched from a Texas cattle ranch.



The Conestoga 1 rocket was designed by Space Services Inc. of America and built from spare parts of other rockets. It was named after a type of...

On Sept. 7, 1995, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on mission STS-69.



This was the 100th successful crew spaceflight mission for NASA. Endeavour lifted off from NASA's historic launch site at Kennedy Space Center's Pad...

On Sept. 8, 2004, NASA's Genesis spacecraft crash-landed in Utah after its parachutes failed to deploy.



Genesis was NASA's first sample-return mission since the Apollo program, and the first to bring back samples from...