Galileo spent 14 years circling Jupiter through a radiation environment that delivered a cumulative dose to its electronics equivalent to roughly 25 million chest X-rays, and on September 21, 2003, NASA deliberately drove it into the planet at 48.2 km/s to protect Europa's hidden ocean from contamination.
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The first permanent structures on the moon will almost certainly be built by robots, not astronauts.
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, military planners on both sides were operating on doctrines built for a different kind of war.
Each of the two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, carries a phonograph record.
Searching for life on other worlds has never suffered from a shortage of interesting places to look.
On 25 August 1989, Voyager 2 passed Neptune, the last planet of its tour and the most distant.
On 14 January 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, and came to rest on the surface.
Lunar Outpost has secured $30 million in Series B funding as the Colorado company tries to move from building individual lunar rovers to supplying the machines that could prepare the Moon for longer-term human use.
The Soviet Lunokhod 1 rover went silent in 1971 and its retroreflector was considered a lost target for nearly four decades. When laser ranging teams finally located it in 2010, the French-built reflector was returning brighter signals than any of the Apollo arrays.
The results and researcher comments are described in Johns Hopkins University's account of the study.
The structure of Hell, as Dante Alighieri laid it out in the early 14th century, is a cone-shaped cavity driven into the earth, narrowing through nine concentric rings toward a frozen pit at the centre of the planet.
On May 21, 2026, Apple announced the latest expansion of its health-monitoring features across a substantial new set of countries.
The World Health Organization declared, on May 17, 2026, that the Ebola outbreak currently spreading through the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
On 15 December 1970, a Soviet probe called Venera 7 reached the surface of Venus and kept transmitting.
The evening sky in the last week of May 2026 is doing several things at once, none of which is, on close examination, particularly rare in isolation, but the…
