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Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets into space—and that number is set to grow dramatically with ambitious missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. But these…
The Soviet Union launched over a dozen probes to Venus—most successfully. But one never made it past Earth’s orbit and has, in fact, stayed there since 1972. Now, over 50 years later, the…
FIREFLY Aerospace succeeded in its first attempt to land on the Moon with its uncrewed Blue Ghost spacecraft on Sunday (Mar 2), kicking off a two-week research mission as a handful of…
A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has made its final flyby of Mercury, as scientists now work to guide BepiColombo into the…
Europe's two eclipse-creating spacecraft are set to launch from India on Wednesday, beginning a mission that will require precision spaceflight down to the millimeter. The European Space…
After NASA's successful planetary defense test in 2022, China’s space agency plans to launch a spacecraft designed to redirect a near-Earth asteroid by 2030. In a recent paper, China’s…
