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NASA’s Dragonfly: send your name to Titan by January 15, 2027
NASA has opened its “Journey to Titan” campaign, inviting the public to register names to ride aboard the Dragonfly rotorcraft…
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Hubble: NASA asks private industry for a mission to raise the telescope’s orbit and service it
NASA issued a Request for Information on October 29 asking companies what they could offer to boost, repair or safely…
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Cat’s Head Nebula: Hubble and Webb capture a haunting stellar nursery in the Carina Nebula
Just days before Halloween, ESA and NASA released Hubble and Webb images of the “Cat’s Head Nebula”, a pillar of…
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Teghaza 001: a Martian meteorite more than 4.1 billion years old, among the oldest ever found on Earth, reveals Mars’s ancient crust
A pink rock found in the Sahara in 2022 turned out to be a piece of Mars more than 4.1…
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Voyager 1: NASA regains the signal after a two-day outage and saves power with the “Big Bang” swap
NASA says Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object, went two days without a signal to Earth and came back…
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NASA’s Lucy enters the region of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, five years after launch
NASA’s Lucy is the first spacecraft to enter the region of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, five years after launch. Its first…
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NASA’s UVEX space telescope passes a key milestone: launch by January 2031 and a $590 million cost
NASA committed to launching the UltraViolet EXplorer by January 2031 at a lifecycle cost of $590 million after the mission…
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ESA’s Hera spacecraft sees the asteroids Didymos and Dimorphos as two separate bodies for the first time
ESA announced on October 27 that its Hera planetary-defence mission has for the first time seen the asteroids Didymos and…
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Vietnam becomes the 78th country to sign the Artemis Accords, the State Department says
Vietnam’s science minister signed the US-led Artemis Accords on 28 October in Ha Long, nine days after Uzbekistan became the…
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NASA’s Perseverance measures Martian dust fine enough to reach the lungs, with consequences for astronaut suits and habitats
Over 1,645 Martian days, Perseverance recorded fine and ultrafine dust particles stuck to spacesuit material samples, some small enough to…
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NASA completes the solar array on NEO Surveyor’s sunshade, the asteroid-hunting telescope, with up to 2 kW of power
NASA said on October 26 that the solar cells have been integrated into the sunshade of the NEO Surveyor space…
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft puts its foot down on the way to the metal asteroid, with thrusters on nearly 90% of the time
NASA said on October 22 that Psyche has been thrusting almost continuously since September 28 and will fire its Hall…