On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...

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That will leave the ESA's Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter to study the world in detail. The mission launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in 2018, and it's been lining ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

Following stage separation, the booster landed on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean roughly ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the mission focuses on navigation ... are collaborating on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. In January 2025, BepiColombo will make its sixth ...

Rocket Mortgage, the nation's largest mortgage lender, picked up a recent legal win as President Donald Trump's new administration takes over two other high-profile cases involving ...

Ham the chimpanzee became the first chimpanzee in space. He successfully performed tasks in microgravity and proved that ...

Debris from the Starship rocket that imploded after launch lit up the sky as it fell back to Earth. It added that during the event, it briefly activated a “Debris Response Area” protocol to ...

Elon Musk’s Starship rocket has exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight, with footage showing streaks lighting up the sky. Footage shared to X shows the rocket, which launched from ...