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Today we’re celebrating the 60th Anniversary of NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration with current NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and former NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden.

Watch on Rappler the longest total lunar eclipse of the century, and Mars will be right next to the eclipsing moon http://www.rappler.com/science-nature/earth-space/208321-how…nce-nature

Last week, Hayabusa2 approached to within 6000 meters of the surface of Ryugu, taking new photos. The team has developed a set of terminology to describe Hayabusa2’s navigational positions around the asteroid.

Harvesting plants in microgravity with resident farmer, astronaut Ricky Arnold, studying tiny organisms and their big role in astronaut health and uncovering how the crew catches 💤’s aboard the International Space Station. For all this and more, watch the latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground:

BEIJING — Next time when your kids ask you to bring them a star from the sky, you don’t have to shrug and walk away. Tell them to wait, instead.

A group of Chinese scientists are mulling a bold idea to capture a small near-Earth asteroid, which might be a potential threat, and bring it back to Earth to exploit its resources.

“Sounds like science-fiction, but I believe it can be realized,” said Li Mingtao, a researcher at the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Watch the official trailer for Cosmos: Possible Worlds.

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Here’s why astronauts look so clumsy on the moon.

A radar instrument on one of the oldest operational Mars orbiters has discovered possible evidence of present-day liquid water on Mars.

Liquid water on Mars? Again? Yes, again. The announcement came at a press briefing held by the Italian Space Agency in Rome, concerning a paper published today in Science.

How is today’s water-on-Mars hoopla different from all of the past announcements? In brief: the evidence is from a new instrument, examining a new location on Mars, and it’s the first place we’ve seen evidence for a present-day body of water that is liquid and stays liquid. For years.

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