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TESS is finding Earth-like planets around the galaxy's most common stars
NASA’s planet-finding telescope is charting Earth-like worlds around nearby stars, especially red dwarfs, for future telescopes to assess their potential for life.
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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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VERITAS, NASA’s Venus mapper
NASA’s mission to understand Venus’ possibly habitable past and hostile present.
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ExoMars 2022: The Kazachok lander and Rosalind Franklin rover
A joint European-Russian mission to find signs of life on Mars.
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A brief history of space missions lost to human errors
When seemingly benign code can demolish your rocket, a planetary spacecraft, and millions of dollars.
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EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus
EnVision will tell us how Earth’s sister planet went from being habitable to hellish.
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VIPER, NASA’s Moon resource mapper
NASA’s boldest robotic Moon mission yet will launch in 2024 to study water ice in one of the harshest planetary environments in the solar system.
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India’s Mars orbiter completes six years at the red planet, but where is the science?
Hailed as India’s most successful space mission, Mangalyaan has an ugly vacuum of science results.
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Psyche, exploring a metal world
NASA’s mission to study a relic from the birth of our solar system.
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Places on the Moon explored by Apollo astronauts and what we learnt from them
The geologically varied landing sites explored by NASA’s iconic human landing missions helped shape our understanding of the Moon.
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Water plumes from Saturn’s icy moon may show promising signs of life
New research says methane levels in Enceladus’ plumes might point to a habitable world.
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How NASA and India discovered water on our Moon
The story of finding water on the Moon spans at least two decades and multiple space agencies, culminating in renewed lunar exploration plans across the world.
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Solar System History 101
From the birth of the planets, moons and space rocks to how things are now.