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Over the past five years, a six-wheeled robot has been exploring the Martian terrain and capturing unusual features like a leopard-spotted rock, a tangle of strings, and textured rock formations that look like popcorn. Now,…

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• The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) launched in late 1998 and was predicted to reach Mars nine months later. But that never actually happened.

• As the MCO approached Mars, it ventured far too close…

A decade after their detection, strange radio pulses emerging from beneath Antarctica continue to puzzle scientists. New research has ruled out some of the most exciting explanations, but the true origin of these signals remains…

After years of frustrating delays, NASA’s Artemis II mission is about to launch astronauts to the lunar environment for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, taking the next big step toward the agency’s ambitious goal of building…

When NASA announced a new Mars helicopter mission called Skyfall last week, the immediate response from most scientists had little to do with the ambitious plan to launch tiny, robotic aircraft to the Red Planet in December 2028. The bigger, more…

Once at a space conference I attended in Colorado Springs, NASA astronaut Victor Glover — the pilot of NASA’s upcoming Artemis 2 mission to the moon — said something that caused a bit of a stir.

It was April 17, 2023, just two weeks after…

We may finally know what first lit up the cosmic dawn in the early Universe.

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic dawn were small dwarf galaxies that…

SpaceX has lost contact with Starlink satellite 34343 after it suffered an unspecified anomaly on March 29 while it was in orbit, the company has announced on X. The event happened while the satellite was approximately 348 miles above our planet….

New research suggests that Monte Verde in Chile may not be as old as once believed. The site, long dated to 14,500 years ago, is now placed between 4,200 and 8,200 years ago. That shift changes how researchers look at the first human…