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China will unveil the international payload cooperation list for the country's Chang'e-8 lunar probe mission at this year's ...
In this week’s episode of Space Minds, Bill Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society sits down with host David Ariosto. The conversation starts with Bill’s journey but quickly pivots to the ...
Hayabusa2 spacecraft has gone into protective safe mode after detecting an abnormality during its journey through space. The ...
Lost in Starlight has finally set a date for its release, and it's lightyears closer than the animated couple's long-distance relationship.
The Trump administration’s draft budget plan for fiscal 2026 includes deep cuts to NASA’s science programs as part of an overall 20% reduction in the agency’s annual spending, leaked documents from ...
With water covering the majority of our planet, scientists have been wading through ideas to answer a fundamental question: ...
A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...
In those drill sites, Curiosity detected deposits containing an iron carbonate material called siderite. According to Ben ...
The Curiosity rover identified hidden caches of the mineral siderite, which could help explain why Mars lost its habitable climate.
A photomosaic taken by the Curiosity rover on April 30, 2023, at one drill site in Gale Crater, Mars. Rock powder samples ...
In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest ...
To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...