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Humans were made to explore new places and learn, where in ancient times explorers traveled across the oceans to discover new lands and cultures and bring home new knowledge of how Earth's fascin…
Huygens touched down on Titan's frigid surface on Jan. 14, 2005, three weeks after separating from the Cassini mothership. It was a landmark moment in planetary science, mission team members sai…
• Satellite is now just over half-way through its five-year mission and the first batch of data has been released • The one billion stars it has located are still only one per cent of the Milky Way…
OSIRIS-REx will travel to near-Earth asteroid Bennu on a sample return mission. NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help s…
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the bur…
During a scheduled contact on Thursday, April 7, mission operations engineers discovered that the Kepler spacecraft was in Emergency Mode (EM). EM is the lowest operational mode and is fuel in…
