Space exploration

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Voyage through the Cosmos

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lunar lander captures a wide field of view image of Schomberger crater on the Moon, in this handout picture released February 23, 2024. Intuitive Machines/Handout via REUTERS
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Moon lander Odysseus tipped sideways on lunar surface but 'alive and well'

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Space exploration in 2024: 5 things to know

An artist's conception of star bursting galaxies early in the history of the universe is shown in this image. Stars and galaxies are shown in the bright white points of light, while the more diffuse dark matter and gas are shown in purples and reds. AARON M. GELLER, NORTHWESTERN, CIERA + IT-RCDS/Handout via REUTERS
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Scientists untangle mystery about the universe's earliest galaxies

The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, Utah, U.S. September 24, 2023. NASA/Keegan Barber/Handout via REUTERS
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Major asteroid sample brought to Earth in NASA first

Trisofuel cells could power micro nuclear generators, which are approximately the size of small cars and can be attached to rockets. Graphic: Collected
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Scientists develop fuel for sustaining life on Moon base

India joins elite club on the Moon. What are our plans?
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India joins elite club on the Moon. What are our plans?

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Chandrayaan 3: ISRO shares images of Moon's far side

General view of the launch pad after a Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites took off at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk, about 200 kms from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Kirill Kudryavtsev/Pool/File Photo
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Russia to evacuate village for first lunar lander mission in half century

Nasa's Voyager 2. Photo: CNN
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NASA detects 'heartbeat' after losing contact with Voyager 2

A spectrum of the protoplanetary disk of PDS 70, obtained with Webb’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), displays a number of emission lines from water vapor. Scientists determined that the water is in the system’s inner disk, at distances of less than 100 million miles from the star – the region where rocky, terrestrial planets may be forming. Download the full-resolution version from the Space Telescope Science Institute. Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI)
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James Webb telescope finds water vapour in distant planet-forming zone

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Perseverance rover spies signs of ancient raging rivers on Mars

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China plans to send probe to near-Earth asteroid around 2025