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Launches, spacecraft, satellites, exploration programs and the engineering that carries people and instruments beyond Earth.
Titan’s atmosphere is thicker than Earth’s, its rivers and lakes are made of methane…
Enceladus is a tiny moon of Saturn that sprays water vapor and ice grains into space…
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the…
JPL's management contract is suddenly up for grabs for the first time since the 1930s…
Researchers simulated 30 million routes to the Moon and found a hidden detour through…
The Apollo astronauts left mirrors on the Moon that scientists still bounce lasers off…
NASA deliberately crashed Galileo into Jupiter in 2003 to protect Europa, after the…
The Cassini spacecraft was deliberately flown into Saturn in 2017 because NASA refused…
The war in Ukraine has become the world's largest live test of autonomous drone warfare
The Voyager Golden Record carries a small sample of uranium on its cover, placed there…
