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China's first fully homegrown Mars mission, Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet today (Feb. 10).

Tianzhou cargo spacecraft to visit module also passes review

It turns out we don't really understand habitable zones.

Now that the UAE's Hope spacecraft and China'sTianwen-1 have successfully reached the Red Planet, next up is NASA's Perseverance rover, set to land on February 18th. Ten operational spacecraft are currently in orbit or o...

With its first successful launch in the books, Virgin Orbit is considering ways it can expand into adjacent markets, including supporting ventures developing satellite systems. SpaceNews

Researchers said Wednesday they had observed water vapour escaping high up in the thin atmosphere of Mars, offering tantalising new clues as to whether the Red Planet could have once hosted life.

DoD has to transition to a space architecture that takes advantage of emerging technologies, Steve Butow, director of the Defense Innovation Unit's space portfolio, said at the SmallSat Symposium. SpaceNews

Famous for his drastic weather predictions, Albert F. Porta's name could be seen in local papers across the country in the early 1900s. His story is a cautionary tale of how fake news spreads when the world is in disarra...

NASA's "Mission to Mars" challenge offers guided educational activities for students to celebrate the upcoming landing of the agency's Perseverance rover on the Red Planet.

A team of astronomers, including associate professor Chad Trujillo of Northern Arizona University's Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, have confirmed a planetoid that is almost four times farther from the Sun...

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Sea salt embedded in the dusty surface of Mars and lofted into the planet's atmosphere has led to the discovery of hydrogen chloride - the first time the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected a new gas. Th...

Image: At the rim of a crater

Entrepreneur Scott Larson, who co-founded Urthecast and Helios Wire, is leading Alpha Insights, a Toronto company that acquired the SAR assets of Urthecast, which filed for protection from creditors in 2020 to avoid bank...

NASA will provide live coverage on NASA Television, the agency's website, and the NASA app of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station beginning at 11:15 p.m. EST Sunday, Fe...

As far as cosmologists can tell, space is almost perfectly flat. But what does this mean?

Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up to four times the size of our own are the most common exoplanets orbiting stars beyond our solar system. Until now, super-Earths were thought to be the rocky cores of mini-Neptunes whose...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

Satellite communications startup Analytical Space Inc. won a $26.4 million contract to develop and launch six cubesats and two hosted payloads to begin establishing Fast Pixel Network for optical communications. SpaceNew...

Jezero Crater once could have been a prime location for martian microbial mats. And Perseverance aims to find out if any Martian fossils were left behind.

Happy New Year – from Mars. It's always mind expanding to think about the passage of time from other perspectives than the ones we are most familiar with. So let's celebrate that our slightly colder red cousin complete...

A Chinese spacecraft went into orbit around Mars on Wednesday on an expedition to land a rover on the surface and scout for signs of ancient life, authorities announced in a landmark step in the country's most ambitious ...