The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

For nine years, a spacecraft known as the Juno orbiter has divided its time between observing the gas giant of Jupiter and ...

The MPC has temporarily listed a number of spacecraft as space rocks over the last two decades — including the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, NASA's Lucy probe, the joint European ...

SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its latest test flight Thursday, but the spacecraft was destroyed following a thrilling booster catch back at the pad. Elon Musk’s company said Starship ...

The first batch of data from a Taiwan-made radiation detector has arrived after the craft was launched into space last week, National Central University (NCU) said yesterday. NCU’s Deep Space ...

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has described the explosion of the company’s Starship spacecraft during its seventh flight test Thursday as “barely a bump in the road,” underlining the momentum behind ...

The probe's descent from its parent spacecraft, NASA's Cassini, took approximately 2.5 hours. When Huygens landed with a thud near the bright equatorial region of Adiri, it made history as the ...

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On this date, Jan. 18, 2004, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express finalized mapping of the Red Planet’s south pole. The probe’s OMEGA instrument, which combined data from a camera and an ...