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NASA is scrapping a moon rover that it spent $450 million to build
NASA is cutting its losses and scrapping its moon rover mission, after it proved to be exceedingly …
Aditi Bharade
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ISRO announces plans to make India the third country to reach Mars, draws inspiration from NASA’s probes
ISRO is all set for the historic Mangalyaan-2 mission where the space agency will land a rover and …
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China's Mars spacecraft has photographed the entire red planet, state media says
China's space agency released sharp images, revealing Mars craters, a volcano, and a canyon that's …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India's moon lander separates from main Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft
Indian space agency on Thursday afternoon successfully detached the moon lander from the main space…
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ISRO moves Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module to orbit around Earth in unique experiment
The Propulsion Module (PM) of Chandrayaan-3 has been moved from an orbit around the Moon to an orbi…
PTI
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Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon for the first time, but the mission didn't go exactly according to plan
Japan successfully landed its SLIM spacecraft on the moon but the spacecraft is not generating sola…
Jessica Orwig
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Lunar bounty: Chandrayaan-3's sulphur discovery could help us get much closer to building Moon colonies
Scientists could use sulphur to create waterless concrete for building Moon bases and produce sulph…
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India's historic moon lander and adorable sidekick rover may be dead for good
India was the first to land near the lunar south pole, but it was always unlikely that its spacecra…
Sonam Sheth,Jenny McGrath
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India's moon lander and rover didn't wake up despite high hopes
It was hoped India's moon lander and rover, Vikram and Pragyan, would awaken on September 22. They …
Sonam Sheth
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Chandrayaan-3 mission: Only hours left for the lift-off
With only hours left for the lift-off, anticipation is building around the launch India's third lun…
ANI
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China has landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time, delivering a water-hunting rover to the red planet
The Zhurong rover is almost ready to start scanning Mars' volcanic-rock fields for hidden water ice…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China plans to attempt an ambitious Mars landing as early as Friday, dropping both a lander and a rover to the red planet
China's Tianwen-1 mission could be the first to deploy an orbiter, lander, and rover all at once. B…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars snapped a photo of the Perseverance rover in the crater below
NASA's satellite captured a photo of Perseverance exploring some of the oldest and perhaps most acc…
Lily Katzman
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NASA's Perseverance rover has beamed back the first-ever photo of a Mars landing
NASA also has the rover's first color photos of the Martian surface, and an image from a spacecraft…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover already beamed back its first photos from the surface of Mars
Before the dust of the landing had even cleared, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped two photos …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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TOUCHDOWN ON MARS: NASA's Perseverance rover has landed safely after a supersonic plunge
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has landed in Jezero Crater, beginning a new era of exploration on t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA mission control live as the Perseverance rover attempts to land on Mars on Thursday
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover will attempt to record video and audio as it plunges through the pla…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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3 spacecraft are set to reach Mars this month, from NASA, China, and the UAE. Here's what they aim to learn.
NASA is bringing a helicopter, and China aims to deploy an orbiter, lander, and rover from just one…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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India's adorable, dog-sized moon rover did its first science on the moon by shooting powerful laser beams at the surface
The 57-pound moon rover, called Pragyaan — meaning wisdom — has conducted the first-eve…
Sonam Sheth,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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China just launched an ambitious Mars mission that could be its first to reach the red planet — and make it just the third nation to explore the Martian surface
The Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander, and rover mission successfully launched on a Long March 5 rocket Thu…