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Astronauts to the moon before. why cant we go back sooner? why is all of this necessary? >> there are a lot of reasons to send humans back to the moon. if were going to go to mars, the moon is a perfect place to develop your hardware, make sure everything is going to work before we send it on to mars and a great place to train your astronauts. so the reason the moon is a great place to do that is because its a similarly harsh environment with reduced atmosphere, reduced gravity, a lot of dust. b...

ESO, European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere

Time. when and do you think nasa beats a private company, such as, well, elon musk has talked a lot about putting a person on the moon? >> well, we are going to mars -- >> to mars i should say. >> -- to be able to explore. this is not just a mars fly-by with humans. but its hard. its going to take months. we go to the moon in days, go to mars and keep a human alive for that long and probably have to stay on the surface at least a year until the planets realign to get back. so its going to be a n...

Greetings everyone! Well, it’s December, which not only contains Christmas, but the first day of winter, which is usually thought to be the shortest day of the year.

A vent at an underground natural gas storage well in Western Pennsylvania has been spewing massive amounts of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere for more than 11 days and attempts to plug the leak have thus far failed.

Sky watchers will have their eyes peeled Wednesday night for a rare-ish celestial event: an “eclipse” of Mars.

See the Kepler technology demonstrator at the National Air and Space Museum, along with a host of technologies that brought success to space exploration

The last full moon of the year will occur at the same time that Mars aligns with the Earth, moon and sun, meaning the Red Planet will be at its brightest.

The last full moon of 2022 will be quite the spectacle not just for its brightness but it has company in the December sky. In a certain part of New York state, you can also see the moon block out one of the planets. It all starts tonight (Wednesday, Dec 7th).

We have a whopping three planets in retrograde this month, which is sure to ring alarm bells with zodiac watchers.