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The Odysseus Lander Is Tipped Over on Its Side on the Moon
Intuitive Machines’ private lander stumbled on its way down to the lunar surface and is possibly leaning over on a…
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Netflix Dogs in Space Animated Series Trailer Is Doggone Cute
The least false advertising possible about a show called Dogs in Space.Screenshot: Netflix In 1957, the Soviet Union launched a…
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Meet VIPER, NASA’s New Water-Hunting, Crater-Crushing Lunar Rover
Conceptual image of VIPER. Image: NASA Ames/Daniel Rutter Equipped with headlights and a suite of powerful instruments, NASA’s VIPER is…
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First Audio of NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Flying on Mars
Ingenuity’s first flight was a simple hover.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS ( (Fair Use) A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover has managed to…
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NASA Reschedules First Ingenuity Flight on Mars for April 19
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen here in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the…
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New Horizons Captures Goosebump-Inducing Image as It Approaches Milestone Distance From the Sun
Somewhere within that yellow circle is the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Southwest Research Institute With Pluto firmly in…
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NASA Reveals Its Plan for First Helicopter Flight on Mars
A mock-up of the helicopter in flight over Jezero Crater on Mars.Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech So far, human exploration on Mars has…
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Here’s 16 Minutes of Perseverance Rover Going Kssst, Tiktik, and Pffft
A shot from Perseverance’s roost in Jezero, with rover tracks at bottom.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Three weeks ago, Earthlings sat agog by…
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Japanese Billionaire Opens Contest for SpaceX Starship Tickets
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire Japanese fashion CEO who paid big bucks to Elon Musk’s SpaceX…
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Satellite Spots NASA’s New Rover—and Its Garbage—From Mars Orbit
ExoMars image showing the Perseverance landing site on Mars. Image: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS; acknowledgement P. Grindrod The Perseverance rover, along with several…
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