Giant Martian crater filled with ice and snow captured in festive holiday photos
The European Space Agency's red planet orbiter Mars Express has captured a festive photo of the snowy Korolev crater just in…
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Space
Mars travelers can use ‘Star Trek’ Tricorder-like features using smartphone biotech: study
Plans to take humans to the Moon and Mars come with numerous challenges, and the health of space travelers is…
5 years ago
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe takes first picture inside the Sun’s atmosphere
Traveling at the record-breaking speed of 213,200 miles per hour, NASA's Parker Solar Probe came within 15 million miles of…
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Virgin Galactic reaches space in rocket-powered plane, eyes space tourism in 2019
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded by entrepreneur Richard Branson, has successfully made it to space for the first…
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NASA opens $2.6 billion in contract services for Moon to Mars missions
"We are going," is an important part NASA's motto for its return to the Moon, and to get there, the…
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NASA’s Mars InSight mission opens doors to hyper-affordable satellite industry
On November 26, 2018, NASA's InSight lander arrived at Mars, our neighboring red planet, after a nearly seven month journey…
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NASA’s Mars InSight shares first images from the Red Planet
Confirmed today at 2:53 pm EST, NASA's InSight lander safely touched down on the surface of Mars. After six years…
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NASA’s InSight lander prepares for Mars arrival on Monday, live stream 3pm ET (7pm UTC)
On Monday, NASA's InSight lander will complete the final phase of its journey to Mars by touching down on the…
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Feasibility study suggests use of high-power lasers to contact alien civilizations
We currently have, or could quickly develop, the technology to communicate with nearby alien worlds, according to a study recently published…
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Ex-SpaceX engineer leads Stratolaunch to major rocket engine test milestone
Led by rocket propulsion expert Jeff Thornburg, Stratolaunch - famous for owning the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built - has…
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NASA’s famed Kepler telescope that discovered thousands of planets officially dead in space
After staring into the far reaches of our galaxy and beyond for nine years, space telescope Kepler was finally decommissioned…
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Elon Musk pegs SpaceX BFR program at $5B as NASA’s rocket booster nears $5B in cost overruns
At the same time as NASA's overrun-stricken Space Launch System (SLS) continues to limp towards its continuously delayed launch debut,…
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SpaceX’s BFR and Raptor deemed “science-fiction” by French space agency manager
Speaking in a September 7th interview with French newspaper Courrier International, Dr. Francis Rocard - director of French space agency CNES'…
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SpaceX competitor ULA achieves 100 launch success streak with NASA’s ICESat-2 LIDAR satellite
Boeing - working as part of ULA - has completed the 100th consecutively successful launch of its 30-year-old Delta II…
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SpaceX competitor ULA readies for final launch of 30-year-old Delta II rocket
Long-time SpaceX competitor United Launch Alliance (ULA) is nearly ready for the final launch of its Boeing subsidiary's Delta II…
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare launch to send a commercial lander to the Moon in 2019
According to a press release published on September 11 in conjunction with the 2018 World Satellite Business Week conference, satellite rideshare…
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Block 5 boosters landing in great shape as competitors betray anxiety
SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell has announced that the company's upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket -…
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NASA may prematurely kill long-lived Mars rover with arbitrary wake-up deadline
In a decision with no obvious empirical explanation, JPL's Opportunity Mars rover project manager John Callas was quoted in an…
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[Update: old photo, not hardware for a new Falcon Heavy] SpaceX’s next Falcon Heavy launch gets closer to reality
Update: The photo of a Falcon Heavy nosecone posted on Instagram on August 30th was actually more than 12 months…
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Russia quietly shelves development of sole SpaceX Falcon 9-competitive rocket
Russian space agency Roscosmos has indefinitely suspended development of the Proton Medium rocket, once expected to help the country compete…
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