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Watch the moment a cosmonaut tossed a bag of parts into space but NASA said the space litter is harmless
The cosmonaut tossed an 11-pound bag of leftover equipment into orbit, but NASA is not concerned ab…
Jessica Orwig,Morgan McFall-J…
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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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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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In its first 100 days, the James Webb telescope peered deep into space, took beauty shots of faraway galaxies and glittering nebulae, and saw a spacecraft slam into an asteroid
Since July, the powerful infrared telescope has sent hundreds of observations back to scientists on…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA fixed a glitch on Voyager 1 after consulting 45-year-old manuals. The spacecraft was beaming information through a dead computer.
Voyager 1 was designed and built in the early 1970s. Documentation could be lost or misplaced, maki…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Alexa to the moon – Amazon’s digital assistant to travel to space aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft this year
NASA in collaboration with engineers from Amazon, Cisco and Lockheed Martin are working on embed…
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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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Chinese cargo spacecraft docks with orbital station eight hours after blastoff
Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, is third and largest orbital station launched by China's increasing…
PTI
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NASA's asteroid-blasting spacecraft has stored over 2 pounds of alien dust and rock to bring back to Earth
Mission scientists raced to stash the asteroid sample because it was leaking into space. Now the pr…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is rushing to hold onto its first sample of asteroid dust before too much leaks into space: 'Time is of the essence'
A valve on the probe's sample-collecting arm won't close, and bits of asteroid are floating away. T…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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Unprecedented new video shows NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft landing on an asteroid and sucking up dust
In NASA's video, the probe creates a flurry of dust and rock — which is how it attempted to collect…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A NASA spacecraft just landed on an asteroid to suck up rocky dust to bring back to Earth. Here's how the mission works.
NASA's Osiris-Rex could find ingredients for life on an asteroid that might crash into Earth. But t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft caused a sonic boom in Florida after splashing down in the Atlantic, residents say
A sonic boom reportedly followed the landing of the Cargo Dragon spacecraft, which marked SpaceX's …
Zahra Tayeb
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SpaceX says its first NASA astronaut flight went 'surprisingly well' — but the mission came with a few eye-opening snags
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were surprised by curious onlookers, toxic fumes, glitchy ta…
Dave Mosher
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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…
Dave Mosher
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The success of NASA’s Mars helicopter exploring Martian skies depends on the final five inches
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is doing what no space agency has done bef…
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NASA's Juno spacecraft flew above Jupiter's Great Red Spot and discovered that the vortex churns up to 310 miles deep
Jupiter's iconic storm is taller than the distance between Earth ant the space station. The jet str…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Video from China's rock-collecting spacecraft shows the probe stick its landing on the moon
China's space agency announced it had landed its Chang'e 5 probe on the moon. Then it released the …