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Boeing Starliner with Sunita Williams onboard could wait months in space before return as NASA mulls extending mission duration
Officials have repeatedly hinted that the Starliner, which faced issues with helium leaks and thrus…
ANI
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Perseverance rover has found a rock with potential signs of ancient life on Mars! Scientists can’t wait to bring it back
The rock exhibits chemical signatures and structures that might have formed billions of years ago, …
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China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
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NASA is asking for help to retrieve Mars samples that could be the first evidence of alien life
NASA's Perseverance rover is collecting Mars rock and soil that could contain hints of ancient alie…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Photos show the 3.86 billion-mile journey of NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission from start to finish
NASA's OSIRIS-REx traveled almost 4 billion miles to get a sample of the asteroid Bennu. Scientists…
Jenny McGrath
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SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft back to Earth with scientific research samples
SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday with scientific research sample…
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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 orb…
PTI
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to suck up asteroid rubble for the first time. Watch the risky maneuver live.
The NASA probe will attempt an intergalactic high-five with asteroid Bennu and use a robotic arm to…
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mosher
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NASA will preserve asteroid samples from OSIRIS-Rex for centuries to come so that scientists not even born yet can study them
The asteroid samples landed in the Utah desert Sunday morning, ending NASA's first ever mission to …
Maiya Focht,Katie Hawkinson
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NASA has collected its first Mars sample. But it needs $4 billion, 10 years, and new technology to bring the rock to Earth.
The Perseverance rover kicked off its search for signs of ancient microbial Mars life. But to compl…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Perseverance rover has finally drilled a sample of Mars rock, kicking off its search for alien microbes
NASA aims to collect dozens of samples from Mars' Jezero Crater in its search for evidence of ancie…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Earth gets its first asteroid samples from 300 million kilometres away — and they could hold clues to the origins of life
Earth has known about the existence of asteroids since the 1800s, but it has taken humans more than…
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A Japanese spacecraft is about to send a 'treasure box' of asteroid dust plummeting to Earth. Watch the sample return live.
Hayabusa-2 is set to drop bits of asteroid rock down into the Australian outback on Saturday - the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China just launched a mission to the moon to collect rock samples — the first time a country will have done so in more than 40 years
The Chang'e-5 mission is the latest step in China's ambitious plan to land on and study the moon. T…
Susie Neilson
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NASA's Perseverance rover discovers organic chemicals on Mars
They found carbon-containing molecules not only in the interiors of abraded rocks that SHERLOC…
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A Japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid after blasting it with a bullet. The mission will bring back rock samples to Earth.
But Bennu has already made a significant finding: In December, before it entered orbit around Bennu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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European Space Agency is suspending its upcoming Mars mission with Russia over Putin's 'aggression' towards Ukraine
"ESA is fully aligned with the sanctions imposed on Russia by its Member States," the agency wrote …
Jake Epstein
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NASA’s Mars-bound spaceship is in 'safe mode' but the agency isn't too worried
The US space agency explains that ‘safe mode’ is when everything else except for the essential s…
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China's new Mars probe took its first photo of the red planet as the mission prepares to make history
Tianwen-1 is the first Mars mission with an orbiter, lander, and rover in one expedition. It's desi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX's new spaceship for people has returned to Earth, completing its first and 'absolutely critical' mission for NASA
"I guarantee everything will not work exactly right, and that's cool, that's exactly what we want t…