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Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...
China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.
Asteroid 2022 YS5, a building-sized space rock, will safely pass Earth on July 17, prompting NASA and ISRO to emphasize the ...
There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...
The crescent moon will be visible 20 degrees above the western horizon at sunset on July 28, with Mars appearing as a bright ...
L anding on another body in the Solar System is a tough business. Despite many successful touchdowns throughout history, ...
What’s harder: blasting a 100,000-pound object into the sky at over 17,000 miles per hour, or launching onto public markets?
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently tested a parachute system designed to safely deliver the 310-kg Rosalind Franklin ...
NASA was a mere passenger. Musk has crowded low Earth orbit with satellites (nearly 8,000) that are becoming indispensable to ...
A massive Mars meteorite sold for a record-breaking $5.3 million at a Sotheby’s auction, making it the highest selling ...
One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.
And the spacecraft’s landing ellipse—the area within which Tianwen-3 is ... Beyond Tianwen-3 and its already-launched asteroid-and-comet-bound sibling Tianwen-2, there is also Tianwen-4, slated for ...