The mission is being conducted in celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the launch of the Mars Express.
June also brings a good opportunity to see Venus in the night sky.
| Simplemost and Marie Rossiter
North Korea wants to be able to observe joint drills the U.S. holds with South Korea. it plans to attempt a second launch soon.
China will also expand its orbiting space station and bring on foreign partners.
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Blue Origin will get $3.4 billion to develop reusable lunar landing stages.
Scientists have confirmed that a rock that fell through the roof of a New Jersey home is a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite.
A suspected meteorite crashed into an occupied New Jersey home. Authorities believe it was from an annual meteor shower.
The Aquariids can be seen this weekend throughout the U.S. in the predawn hours in the southeast sky.
Environmental and animal rights groups say the FAA didn't do enough to understand the impacts of SpaceX's test launches.
China's rover found sand dune features that scientists say were most likely caused by water at one time.
The Japanese company ispace said its craft was 33 feet away from landing on the moon when it lost contact. The company said it might have crashed.
The small coastal town of Exmouth, Australia, welcomed about 20,000 tourists Thursday to view the rare celestial event.
No humans or satellites were on the test flight.
The California-based satellite launch company has set a May 14 bid deadline for interested buyers.
An official said the division examining UAPs is looking into 650 instances, but "no credible evidence" has been found of extraterrestrial activity.
There are typically two solar eclipses every year, and Thursday's solar eclipse is the first of its kind in a decade.
RHESSI has been in orbit since 2002 but was retired in 2018 after its communications failed.
SpaceX delayed the launch of its Starship rocket on Monday. Elon Musk said there was an issue with a pressurant valve.
Following the FAA's approval, Elon Musk tweeted "Success maybe, excitement guaranteed!"
JUICE, short for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, will study three of the planet’s largest moons and the massive oceans buried beneath their surfaces.
Mission planners had a one-second window to launch their latest space probe.
The image released in 2019 gave a peek at the enormous black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy, but AI has given it a touch-up.
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Can you find a meteorite that fell in Maine? NASA offers tips that could help make you $25,000 richer.
The annual Lyrid meteor shower begins April 15.
Scripps News visits Triadelphia, West Virginia, a small town of just over 600 people, where carbon foam is manufactured for the aerospace industry.
The Keystone Space Collaborative's latest effort could be game-changing, as it partners with Sierra Space to construct a private space station.
A coronal hole high-speed stream caused the northern lights to be visible in parts of the U.S., but could cause some issues with the power grid.
Five planets — Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will align on the evening of March 28.
New NASA maps show who will have the best view of two major solar eclipse events in the next 13 months.
The asteroid is estimated to be the size of a hockey rink, making it a relatively large near-Earth object.
A scientist explains what caused streaks of light to fly across the night sky over California.
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NASA wants to listen in on radio signals from the far side of the moon, which never faces us here on Earth.
Their capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just off the Florida coast near Tampa.
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