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Asteroid Chunk Collected by NASA After Desert Landing

Asteroid Chunk Collected by NASA After Desert Landing

Completing its seven-year, four-billion-mile trek through space and back, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed in the desert of the US military's Utah Test and Training Range Sunday, carrying the largest soil sample ever collected from an asteroid....

Science & Technology

India's Chandrayaan-3 Lands on Lunar Surface

India's Chandrayaan-3 Lands on Lunar Surface

On Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully landed a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon in a historic moment that drew cheers from watching parties around the country.

India

European Space Agency Launches Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moons

European Space Agency Launches Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moons

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its 'Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer' (Juice) mission on an Ariane 5 rocket launched from French Guiana on Friday. The liftoff marks the start of a trek to explore the oceans on Jupiter's icy moons....

Communication

NASA Names First Woman and Black Man for Moon Mission

NASA Names First Woman and Black Man for Moon Mission

The US space agency NASA has named four astronauts, three Americans and one Canadian, for the Artemis-2 lunar mission. Among them are the first woman and first Black man to partake in a mission to the Moon - Christina Koch and Victor Glover....

Space

Scientists Discover Water Inside Tiny Glass Beads On Moon

Scientists Discover Water Inside Tiny Glass Beads On Moon

According to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, it has been discovered that tiny impact glass beads on the Moon contain an 'efficient water recharge mechanism that could sustain the lunar surface water cycle.'...

Space

US Senators Propose Law to Track High-Altitude Balloons

US Senators Propose Law to Track High-Altitude Balloons

US Senators Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and Ted Budd (R-N.C.) on Wednesday introduced a bill intended to help the US better track objects in its airspace and differentiate potential threats from non-threats....

China

Japan Destroys Flagship H3 Rocket in Failed Launch

Japan Destroys Flagship H3 Rocket in Failed Launch

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) stated on Tuesday that an attempt to launch its next-generation H3 space rocket failed, with controllers issuing a destruct command 15 minutes after liftoff as there was no possibility of achieving the mission....

Space

SpaceX launches US, Russia, UAE astronauts to space station

SpaceX launches US, Russia, UAE astronauts to space station

On Thursday, SpaceX launched its Crew Dragon capsule from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida — it held three astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut aboard. The Falcon 9 rocket lit up the sky at lift-off, accelerating the capsule to a speed of 17.5K mph (28,160 km/h) before it escaped Earth's gravi...

Elon Musk

Russia Launches Rescue Ship to International Space Station

Russia Launches Rescue Ship to International Space Station

Russia's unmanned 'rescue' spacecraft, which launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, has arrived in orbit on its mission to return one American and two Russian astronauts from the International Space Station. They were originally intended to ride Soyuz MS-22 back to Earth...

Russia

Report: 'Planet Killer' Asteroid Hiding in Sun's Glare

Report: 'Planet Killer' Asteroid Hiding in Sun's Glare

Astronomers have found three near-Earth asteroids, dubbed 'planet killers' due to their massive size, during a brief window of twilight. The asteroids were in an orbit between Earth and Venus, and are usually hidden within the sun's glare....

United States