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Send your name to Mars
Want to send your name to Mars on NASA's next rover mission in 2020? You'll get your name etched on a microchip affixed to the rover - and a souvenir boarding pass. Here's how.
May 24, 2019
New evidence for Pluto’s subsurface ocean
Does Pluto have an ocean? That idea seems preposterous at first, but a new study adds to the growing evidence for a subsurface ocean on this distant dwarf planet ... and explains how it stays liquid.
May 23, 2019
Why the moon’s near and far sides look different
New research suggests that a wayward dwarf planet collided with the moon in the early history of the solar system, causing the stark difference between the moon’s heavily-cratered far side and the lower-lying open basins of its near side.
May 22, 2019
What Chang’e 4 learned from the moon’s far side
Early results from China's historic 1st landing on the moon's far side. Chinese scientists have used in situ data from a far side crater to identify materials on the moon's surface that originated deeper inside the moon.
May 22, 2019
See Beresheet spacecraft’s impact site on moon
NASA released before and after images of the spot on the moon where Israel’s Beresheet spacecraft crash-landed on April 11.
May 22, 2019
Scientists find new periodic water cycle on Mars
A new study shows that Mars has a unique water vapor cycle that occurs only once about every 2 years. The cycle might help explain how Mars lost most of its water.
May 21, 2019
Close encounter sets galaxy ablaze with new stars
A cosmic collision in action. Read more about what happens when 2 galaxies sideswipe each other.
May 20, 2019
How some planets can survive their stars’ deaths
A new "survival guide for exoplanets" outlines how different kinds of planets fare when their host star dies. It suggests the smallest rocky worlds are the most likely to escape annihilation.
May 19, 2019
Video: Fly over Curiosity’s route on Mars
Follow the route of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, as it moves to a new part of Mount Sharp, into an area scientists call the “clay-bearing unit”.
May 17, 2019
New insights about Haumea’s enigmatic ring
Dwarf planet Haumea orbits in Pluto's realm of the solar system. It's the most distant little world known to have a ring. Scientists in Brazil have new insights on how Haumea's ring maintains its nearly perfect circular shape.
May 16, 2019
