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Dragonfly is Going to Titan on a Falcon Heavy
NASA has given SpaceX the contract to launch the Dragonfly mission to Saturn's moon Titan. A Falcon Heavy will send…
Life Probably Didn't Have a Hand in Creating Organic Deposits on the Surface of Mars
Using data from the ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), new research shows that organic material on Mars may not be…
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Curiosity Discovers Mars Rock Like None Before, Sets Drill Campaign
On the eve of the 3rd anniversary since her nail biting touchdown inside Gale Crater, NASA’s car sized Curiosity Mars…
NASA Selects Mission Science Instruments Searching for Habitability of Jupiter’s Ocean Moon Europa
In a major move forward on a long dreamed of mission to investigate the habitability of the subsurface ocean of…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover detects Methane, Organics on Mars
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014, NASA scientists attending the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco announced the detection…
Unusual Distributions of Organics Found in Titan’s Atmosphere
A new mystery of Titan has been uncovered by astronomers using their latest asset in the high altitude desert of…
Ancient Martian Life May Be Preserved in Glass
When large asteroids or comets strike the Earth -- as they have countless times throughout our planet's history -- the energy…
Ancient Impacts Stained Vesta with Carbon-Rich Material
Composite-color 3D image of Cornelia crater on Vesta (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) Ever since arriving at Vesta in July 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft…