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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
In March 2025, Australia's new SKA-Low telescope photographed 85 galaxies using just…
Two enormous structures — the Giant Arc and the Big Ring — appear in the same region of…
The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal…
If you could travel to another star system at almost the speed of light, you might age…
Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium in an $8 billion deal, gaining a global satellite network…
A galaxy confirmed this January formed just 290 million years after the Big Bang, and…
NASA awards nearly $600 million for four new Moon Base cargo landings, targeting late…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified the most diverse set of organic molecules yet…
A tiny “quasi-moon” called Kamoʻoalewa shadows Earth’s orbit and may be a piece of the…
A software error ended Russia's only Moon landing attempt in nearly fifty years in…
