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Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space
It’s not uncommon for NASA missions to far outlive their expected lifetimes,…
This Private Moon Lander Is Kicking Off a Commercial Lunar Race
Soon, the Ispace lander will have plenty of company. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic will…
SpaceX’s Starship Explodes During First Orbital Test Flight
SpaceX’s Starship—a spacecraft that might one day transport people to Mars—has completed…
The ‘Bad Astronomer’ Takes You on a Tour of the Cosmos
In the early 2000s, Phil Plait wrote his first book, Bad Astronomy, which…
Capturing the Mosaic of Minerals in Meteorites
When Neil Buckland, an artist based in Seattle, met a geologist named…
A European Space Probe Sets Its Sights on the Jupiter System
Ganymede likely has some special characteristics. It isn’t just Jupiter’s biggest moon,…
The Big Bang’s Afterglow Reveals Invisible Cosmic Structures
Nearly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the primordial plasma of the…
NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
It will also be able to track variations in pollution at the…
How Do People Live in Orbit? Ask the Space Archeologists
Archaeologists have probed the cultures of people all over the Earth—so why…