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Space & Missions
Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
Flying into space is not mainly about climbing higher
On Mars, a dust storm in 2018 grew large enough to cover the entire planet, blocking…
The tidy diagram of our solar system is misleading
Mars was once covered in rivers and lakes, and the mystery of where all that water went…
In 2026 NASA flew astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over fifty years…
Mars is usually named as humanity's most likely second home, but a NASA-funded study…
When the FAA proposed letting commercial rocket licenses bypass specified requirements…
At about 19 kilometres up the air pressure falls low enough that water boils at human…
On a February day in 1984 an astronaut did what no human had dared, with no safety line…
A NASA instrument the size of a toaster, riding inside the Perseverance rover…
