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A small capsule bearing pristine pieces of the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu touched down today (Dec. 5) in the Outback of South Australia.

SpaceX's next resupply mission to the International Space Station, scheduled to launch Sunday (Dec. 6), will carry a host of science gear to the astronauts living and working on the orbiting lab.

A team of researchers have created an electrolyzer that could be a game-changer for exploration missions on Mars. The post Astronauts Will be Able to Extract Fuel, Air, and Water From Martian Brine appeared first on Univ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe zoomed past Earth on December 5th and dropped off a capsule containing bits of an asteroid, finishing a six-year round trip. But the mission is far from over: While Hayabusa 2’s parachute-equ...

Japan's Hayabusa2 mission has delivered samples taken from a primitive asteroid to Earth to provide insights into the origin of life on Earth and evolution of the solar system. SpaceNews

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 64 crewmembers Michael Hopkins and Shannon Walker of NASA discussed their flight to the complex last month on the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" and the progress of the...

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station....

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Banks Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand....

Modern astronomy is going through a new chapter of sample-retrieval missions, which started with the Apollo program.

Taken literally, Starlink users must agree with SpaceX that Mars is a "free planet" and that disputes concerning Starlink services provided on Mars or while en route to the red planet via a SpaceX Starship will be settle...