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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
Voyager 1 has been travelling non-stop since 1977, faster than a speeding bullet every…
Human beings have now lived continuously aboard the International Space Station since…
In June 2025, a 65-year-old former NASA astronaut named Peggy Whitson became the oldest…
Musk's original 2001 Mars plan was almost childishly simple
On March 13, 1989, a geomagnetic storm collapsed Quebec's entire power grid in just 90…
When JWST looked at XLSSC 122, a galaxy cluster 10.4 billion light-years away, it…
SpaceX's full legal name is Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, and the company…
A space telescope that has spent 22 years detecting the most powerful explosions in the…
NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft happened to be sitting in the path of the July 2012…
Solar storms don't shock people directly
