Debris falling from the sky: more often, more risk
It is still not clear what exactly fell onto a Kenyan village last month, but such events are likely to become increasingly ...
NASA exploring 2 options to lower costs, speed up Mars Sample Return mission
NASA hopes a revised plan will get Mars samples back to Earth faster and cost less than the agency's original plan.
BepiColombo spacecraft flies past Mercury
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...
NASA Eyes SpaceX, Blue Origin To Cut Mars Rock Retrieval Costs
NASA announced Tuesday it may turn to Elon Musk's SpaceX or Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin to help reduce the soaring costs of ...
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India delays 1st space docking of SpaDeX satellites, 'further validation' needed
ISRO's Space Docking Experiment satellites will now attempt their historic docking no earlier than Jan. 9 India Standard Time ...
All the Space News We’re Excited About in 2025: Launches, First Lights, Flybys, and More
A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...
Space debris weighing over 1,000 pounds crashes into Kenya village
Officials said they were investigating fragments of metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in the ...
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NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission
Previously, the Mars Sample Return mission had been estimated to cost around 11 billion dollars and would not return a sample ...
NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along.
Recent exceptional rock discoveries have only mounted pressure on NASA to solve the problems facing its Mars Sample Return mission, its plan to fly bits of rock, dust, and air collected by ...
NASA collected Mars rocks to haul to Earth. It still hasn’t decided how.
The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ancient life on Mars.