Space Exploration
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Japan’s H3 Rocket Evolves Into a Versatile Workhorse for Deep Space Exploration
With the debut of its long fairing, the H3 rocket is scaling up its capabilities to support complex…
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Phobos Samples May Reveal If Mars Moons Are Captured Asteroids or Impact Debris
JAXA’s MMX mission aims to return soil from Phobos to determine if the Martian moons formed from a…
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NASA Chief Says US and China Are Months Apart in Race to the Moon
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman does not hedge about China. Speaking on CBS’s Face the Nation on July 6,…
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 Launches Four Astronauts to International Space Station
Kennedy Space Center, October 1 A quiet hush settled over the launchpad as the final checks were completed.…
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Astronomers Trace First Radio Signal Directly to an Exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b
Netherlands — A significant development in the field of astronomy has been announced, with the detection of radio…
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SpaceX Starship Rehearses Fueling Ahead of First Orbital Test Flight
LOS ANGELES, July 15 — The race to build a fully reusable rocket for missions to the Moon…
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Venus May Have Destroyed Its Moon, New Research Suggests
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Venus has no moon. A team of scientists now says that may not be…
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ESA’s Juice Spacecraft Returns to Earth on 28 September 2026 for a Gravity Assist
KOUROU, French Guiana — The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, known as Juice, is preparing to…
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Carney and Macron Pledge Shared Space Launch Infrastructure on Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Visit
MONTREAL, September 20 — The Canadian Space Agency and its French counterpart are moving toward a shared launch…
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China Plans 2028 Launch of Tianwen-3 Mars Sample-Return Mission
BEIJING, Sept. 9 — China is on track to launch its Tianwen-3 Mars sample-return mission in 2028, according…
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Wang Xiaojun’s Mars Math: China’s 2033 Date Was Never A Schedule
BEIJING, July 10 — The president of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), Wang Xiaojun, has…
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NASA Study Finds Earth Microbes Could Survive in Shadowed Pockets Near the Moon’s South Pole
Washington, D.C., August 20 — NASA is investigating the potential survival of certain extremophile microbes on the Moon,…
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Trump Signs Memorandum to Accelerate U.S. Space Launches
Washington, August 20 — President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on August 20 aimed at transforming U.S. space…
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Voyager’s Golden Record: A 1977 Time Capsule Aimed at Extraterrestrial Listeners
ITHACA, New York, Aug. 5 — A 12-inch disc made of gold-plated copper is carrying the story of…
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NASA Shuts Off Voyager 1 Instrument to Save Power and Keep Spacecraft Operating
PASADENA, August 5 — From the quiet precision of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory here in California, a signal…
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NASA’s MAVEN Finds Solar Wind Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere and Surface Water
BOULDER, August 4 — Our celestial neighbor, Mars, once held flowing rivers and perhaps even an ocean, a…
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James Webb Space Telescope Launched From Guiana Space Centre In 2021
GUIANA SPACE CENTRE, August 3 — The sheer ambition of space exploration often hinges on the reliability of…
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Former NASA Engineer Calls Starship Heat Shield a Dead End for Rapid Reuse
The Thermal Protection Bottleneck BOCA CHICA, Texas, July 27 — Starship, the fully reusable super-heavy-lift launch vehicle SpaceX…
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Astrophotography From Daguerre’s Failed 1839 Moon Shot to Modern CCD Imaging
MANILA, July 25 — The night sky has always drawn eyes upward, but turning that gaze into a…
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From Mercury to Dragon: Launch abort systems save astronaut lives
WASHINGTON, July 21 — The launch escape system, a piece of engineering that separates crew from catastrophe, is…
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From SSD to SSC: 60-Year Evolution of U.S. Space Systems Command
LOS ANGELES, July 21 — On a sprawling campus in El Segundo, past the security gates of Los…
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Ion Thrusters From Dawn to the X3: How They Work and Where They Fall Short
WASHINGTON, July 20 — The ion thruster, a form of electric propulsion for spacecraft, has quietly become a…
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Bezos Says Blue Origin Will Likely Go Public Someday After $10 Billion Raise
SEATTLE, July 16 — On the floor of Blue Origin’s Kent facility, a New Glenn rocket stands in…
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Von Braun’s 1969 plan to send humans to Mars and why it was dropped
HUNTSVILLE, July 15 — Against this backdrop of renewed transatlantic debate over the legacy of Nazi-era scientists who…
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