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NASA Retires Mars Lander InSight After Groundbreaking 4-Year-Long Mission
It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA’s InSight lander on Mars. The lander has fallen silent after four years of operation.
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NASA Sets New Window For Artemis I Rocket Launch
NASA has set a new window for the test launch of the Artemis I rocket due to storm preparations
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NASA Mars Lander Captures Strikes by 4 Incoming Space Rocks
A NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteoroids striking the planet’s surface. Scientists reported Monday that Mars InSight has detected seismic and acoustic waves from a series of impacts in 2020 and 2021. A satellite orbiting the red planet confirmed the impact locations, as far as 180 miles from the lander. Scientists are delighted...
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Life on Mars? Here's What NASA's Perseverance Rover Found
NASA on Thursday provided a look at what has been gathered during an amazing mission to Mars.
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NASA Details Program Objectives Ahead of Artemis Launch
James Free, associate of NASA’s Exploration Systems Development, spoke Friday about the longterm goals of the Artemis moonshot program. “We want to stay on the lunar surface and learn on the lunar surface so that we can get the most science [to] know how we’re going to go to Mars.”
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Rare 5-Planet Alignment Will Be Most Visible in the Mass. Sky Early Friday Morning
While the celestial event has been occurring all week (and all month in some form) experts say the best time to see it will be early Friday morning.
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These 5 Planets Will Be Visible to the Naked Eye This Month
Five planets will be visible to stargazers without a telescope beginning this weekend and lasting through the end of June.
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NASA Ingenuity Helicopter Takes Incredible Photos of Perseverance Debris on Mars
NASA says its Ingenuity helicopter recently discovered and surveyed the wreckage of the equipment that helped land the “Perseverance” rover mission on Mars in 2021.
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NASA's Mars Helicopter Spots Wreckage of Rover Landing Gear
The interplanetary photo op was conducted earlier this month by the helicopter, NASA reported.
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China Plans Crewed Moon Mission, Tourism and Jupiter Exploration in Space Race With the U.S.
China has had some notable space successes in the past few years including sending an uncrewed mission to Mars and starting construction of its own space station.
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Through 20 Years in Space, He Saw Climate Change Happen
Costa Rican American astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz saw the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and the pollution of the world’s oceans happen over 20 years in trips to space. These days, after making history as the first Latino astronaut to go into space, Chang-Díaz is working on plasma propulsion, a project which could be ready in a few years and drastically...
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China's Mars Rover Soldiers on After Completing Program
China’s Mars rover is soldiering on after completing its initial program to explore the red planet and search for whether it once supported life
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Want to Pretend to Live on Mars for a Year? NASA Is Hiring
The paid volunteers will work a simulated Martian exploration mission complete with spacewalks, limited communications back home, restricted food and resources and equipment failures.
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Here's What Marsquakes Are Telling Us About the Red Planet's Core
The findings are based on about 35 marsquakes registered by a French seismometer on NASA’s InSight stationary lander, which arrived at Mars in 2018.
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What to Know When Venus, Mars and the Moon Throw a Celestial Block Party Tonight
Venus and Mars will appear close together, something frequent stargazers might have noticed happening gradually during July. On Monday night and into the early hours, the two planets will be at their closest distance to one another.
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China Once Said It Couldn't Put a Potato in Space. Now It's Eyeing Mars
China has achieved some notable feats recently including an uncrewed mission to Mars and sending astronauts to its own space station.
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Here's How NASA's Perseverance Rover Took a Selfie on Mars
The selfie NASA’s Perseverance rover took on the surface of Mars on April 6 was actually 62 images stitched together by JPL scientists to look like one. The process involved over a dozen people and took about a week to code.
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China Plans to Send Its First Crewed Mission to Mars in 2033 and Build a Base There
Space is an area China wants to lead as part of a broader technology battle with the U.S. NASA plans a crewed mission to Mars in the 2030s.
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Photos Show Chinese Rover on Dusty, Rocky Martian Surface
The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos the rover took on the red planet
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Glitch Leads to Turbulent Ride for NASA's Mars Helicopter
On its ambitious sixth flight, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity encountered an airborne navigation glitch that caused it to tilt back and forth while making unplanned velocity changes