As NASA faces cuts, China reveals ambitious plans for planetary exploration
Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
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Europe's Hera spacecraft aces self-driving test at Mars before asteroid mission
The spacecraft captured the Red Planet and its enigmatic moons, Deimos and Phobos, marking its first deep-space imaging ...
How NASA's Perseverance is helping prepare astronauts for Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient microbial life and to help scientists ...
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Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
a UCLA professor of planetary science who is leading the NEO Surveyor mission for NASA. “We still don’t know everything that’s in our own backyard,” Mainzer said. And if we do need to ...
UK to land Europe’s first rover on Mars
Airbus UK has secured a £150m contract to engineer the landing platform for Europe's first Mars rover, called the Rosalind ...
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NASA Shares SpaceX Crew-11 Assignments for International Space Station Mission
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, four crew members from will launch in the coming months to the International Space Station.
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ESA selects Tyvak for Ramses Mission CubeSat involving asteroid flyby
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Tyvak to build the first CubeSat for the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety ...