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How we test spacecraft before launch
The array of space-simulating test facilities a spacecraft tours through before it can blast off of Earth.
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By Jatan Mehta | Dives into lunar exploration, space technology, Indian space, planetary science, and more.
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NASA is funding a Moon mission to the magnetic swirl of Reiner Gamma
Intuitive Machines' third Moon landing mission will help us better understand the evolution of planetary surfaces across the solar system.
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Is life possible on rogue planets and moons?
A look at how starless free-floating worlds might represent the most common habitable real estate of the Universe.
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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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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.