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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity takes off on historic 1st powered flight on another worldNASA's Ingenuity helicopter lifted off on the Red Planet early this morning (April 19), performing the first-ever powered flight on a world beyond Earth.
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Mars Helicopter Ingenuity snaps 1st color photo on Red PlanetThe 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper captured its first color photograph on Saturday (April 3), shortly after being lowered to the Martian dirt by the Perseverance rover.
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SpaceX identifies cause of Starship SN11 prototype's crashThe stainless-steel SN11 didn't stick its landing last week because of a plumbing problem, according to SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk.
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The huge ship stuck in the Suez Canal seen in photos from spaceA massive container ship's embarrassing and inconvenient predicament is visible from space.
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US military to keep wary eye on Chinese and Russian space ambitions under President BidenThe space ambitions of Russia and China will likely stay front and center for the U.S. military during the administration of President Joe Biden.
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Space station tosses 2.9-ton hunk of space junk overboard. It will stay in orbit for years.The International Space Station discarded a 2.9-ton pallet of used batteries on Thursday morning (March 11), the most massive object it has ever jettisoned.
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Newfound super-Earth alien planet whips around its star every 0.67 daysWe keep getting reminders that the Milky Way's planetary diversity dwarfs what we see in our own solar system.
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NASA's Perseverance rover deploys wind sensor on MarsNASA's Mars rover Perseverance continues getting up to speed on the Red Planet.
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Perseverance rover snaps gorgeous HD panorama of Mars landing sitePerseverance has captured a high-definition, 360-degree panorama of its surroundings on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which harbored a lake and a river delta billions of years ago.
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FAA closes investigation of SpaceX's Starship SN9's test-flight crashThe path is now much clearer for the test flight of SN9's successor, SN10.
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A new 7 minutes of terror: See the nail-biting Mars landing of NASA's Perseverance rover in this videoPerseverance will attempt to land inside Mars’ Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. A new video shows how the spacecraft’s harrowing entry, descent and landing will work.
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China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, successfully enters orbit around Red PlanetChina's first fully homegrown Mars mission, Tianwen-1, arrived in orbit around the Red Planet Wednesday (Feb. 10).
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NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is in the home stretch of its journey to Red PlanetThe car-size Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30 of last year, is scheduled to land inside the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18.
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A giant black hole keeps evading detection and scientists can't explain itThe big galaxy at the core of the cluster Abell 2261 should harbor a supermassive black hole that weighs as much as 3 billion to 100 billion suns. But astronomers can't find it.
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China's Chang'e 5 capsule lands on Earth with the 1st new moon samples in 44 yearsChina's Chang'e 5 moon sample-return capsule landed in Inner Mongolia on Wednesday (Dec. 16), returning lunar rocks for the first time since 1976.
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SpaceX's Starship SN8 prototype soars on epic test launch, with explosive landingSpaceX's Starship spaceflight system just took a big step on its path to Mars.
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SpaceX aborts Starship SN8 prototype test launch at last secondSpaceX's first attempt to launch a Starship prototype on a high-altitude test flight ended with a last-second abort in Texas on Tuesday (Dec. 8).
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China's Chang'e 5 lands on the moon to collect the 1st fresh lunar samples in decadesChina has landed on the moon again — and this time the country plans to bring home some souvenirs.
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China launches historic Chang'e 5 mission to collect the first moon samples since 1976The first lunar sample-return mission since the 1970s is underway.
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Supernova explosions may have helped shape Earth's climate historyThe evidence is tentative but intriguing.
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NASA's next Mars rover will land in less than 100 daysThe life-hunting Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, which launched on July 30, is scheduled to land inside Jezero Crater on the afternoon of Feb. 18, 2021.
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Jim Bridenstine will step aside as NASA chief when President-elect Biden takes over: reportNASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine won't remain in the agency's lead role in the Biden administration even if asked, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report reported on Sunday (Nov. 8).
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Planned satellite constellation poses a collision threat, NASA says: ReportsNASA has voiced "substantial concerns."
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What does the 2020 presidential election mean for space exploration?A brief look at the space policies of Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
