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Some Assembly Required: Scientists Piece Together the Largest U.S.-Based Dark Matter Experiment

Major deliveries in June set the stage for the next phase of work on LUX-ZEPLIN project

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Upper (left) and lower photomultiplier tube arrays are prepared for LZ at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota.

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Gaia’s biggest operation since launch and commissioning

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MASCOT confirms what scientists have long suspected

Small fragments of carbon-rich asteroids are too fragile to survive entry into Earth’s atmosphere

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Investigated region on Ryugu.

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Want to Colonize Mars? Aerogel Could Help

Raising crops on Mars is far easier in science fiction than it will be in real life: The Red Planet is an inhospitable world. Among other challenges, subzero temperatures mean water can persist on the surface only as ice, and the planet's atmosphere offers little protection to plants (or people) from the Sun's radiation.

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Hubble Peers at Galactic Cherry Blossoms

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Hubble Peers at Galactic Cherry Blossoms

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Wildfire Sparks in Sugarcane Fields on the Island of Maui

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Wildfire Sparks in Sugarcane Fields on the Island of Maui

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Holes in the Universe sharpen cosmic measurements

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The change in the average shape of voids caused by Doppler distortions and the effects of dark energy and curvature.

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A Rover Pit Stop at JPL

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A team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, install the legs and wheels - otherwise known as the mobility suspension - on the Mars 2020 rover. The imagery for this accelerated time-lapse was taken on June 13, 2019, from a camera above the Spacecraft Assembly Facility's High Bay 1 clean room.

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HiRISE Spots Curiosity Rover at Mars' 'Woodland Bay'

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover can be seen in this image taken from space on May 31, 2019, by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. In the image, Curiosity appears as a bluish speck.

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NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 Gets First Data

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Preliminary carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements from OCO-3 over the United States.