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Artemis program: Here's how NASA plans to return to the Moon

NASA's Artemis mission aims to put humans back on the moon for the first time after the Apollo 17 mission, fifty years ago. The space agency has built the most powerful rocket ever, the Space Launch System (SLS), which will carry all the spacecraft ...

Why NASA wants public help in spotting Martian clouds

Scientists at NASA are hoping to solve a fundamental mystery about Mars' atmosphere and you can help them do it. The space agency has organised a project that uses its citizen science platform Zooniverse. The project called "Cloudspotting on Mars" ...

NASA hopes New Zealand launch will pave way for moon landing

NASA wants to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. So it is sending up a test satellite from New Zealand, with the launch scheduled for late Tuesday.

Zombie star survives its own detonation, emerges brighter than before

In what could be one of the rarest phenomena ever observed in our cosmic neighbourhood, a star exploded on itself and miraculously survived its own detonation. What's even more bizarre is that the star emerged brighter than before after the explosion ...

NASA wants you to help spot clouds on Mars because it can reveal THIS big secret

NASA is counting clouds on Mars and wants you to join them. Yes, the American space agency has undertaken a seemingly silly but extremely important project where it will be analysing the data collected by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

Last asteroid impact on Earth? NASA scientist reveals truth

Have you ever wondered when was the last time Earth got hit by an asteroid? If so, then NASA scientist Marina Brozovic might have the answer. Asteroids are small, rocky celestial objects in space which appear as a point of light when seen through a ...

Zombie star survives Supernova blast but can Sun live through it too?

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Livemint

In an extraordinary feat, recently a star not only survived a stellar explosion called a supernova but emerged from it brighter than before the blast. The event in a relatively nearby galaxy was observed by astronomers with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Cygnus spacecraft falls to fiery death from International Space Station

However, it is falling to its death. In fact, it will have a fiery end over the Pacific Ocean. Built by Northrop Grumman, the robotic Cygnus freighter dubbed SS Piers was undocked by the station's robotic arm at 7:05 a.m. EDT (1105) on Tuesday morning.

The Gaia Mission Keeps Unlocking Secrets of the Galaxy

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WIRED

Since 2013, the European Space Agency's Gaia probe has been doing just that. The mission's latest result, Data Release 3, which came out two weeks ago, maps 1.8 billion stars in and around our galaxy—covering about 1 or 2 percent of all stellar objects in ...

Chinese probe successfully maps entire Mars, sends stunning pictures

After reaching Martian orbit, China's Tianwen-1 mission reached a major milestone and successfully mapped the entire planet. The spacecraft has captured images ranging from Mars' poles to the surface features, canyons, and craters after circling the ...