The Perseverance rover will spend the next two years exploring the dry river delta and drilling into rocks that may hold evidence of life.
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U.S. billionaire buys SpaceX flight to orbit with 3 others
Jared Isaacman says the money raised from the trips will be donated to St. Jude’s Research Hospital.
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Two black holes merged into a size astronomers have never before seen
The first ever discovered intermediate black hole, which is 142 times the mass of the sun, formed in a violent collision about 7 billion years ago.
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon launches first manned test flight to space station
The flight ends a nine-year launch drought for NASA, which retired the space shuttle in 2011.
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Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon in 1971, dies at age 88
Once his crewmates were back on board and headed home after testing a lunar rover, Worden performed the first deep-space spacewalk – nearly 200,000 miles from Earth.
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Space Force war funds request marks budgetary 1st
The $77 million would go to maintaining and defending key satellites from adversary efforts.
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Our View: Now-retired telescope gave us a view into the unknown
The Spitzer space telescope answer longstanding questions about our universe, and raised many others.
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Astronaut craves salsa, surf after record 11 months aloft
NASA astronaut Christina Koch says being part of the first all-female spacewalk was the highlight of her 328-day mission.
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SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test
Elon Musk, the company’s founder, says the next Crew Dragon could launch with a pair of NASA astronauts as early as April.
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U.S. astronaut sets record for longest spaceflight by a woman
Christina Koch, who arrived at the space station on March 14, broke the old mark of 288 set by former commander Peggy Whitson.