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Politics
NASA Searching for New Ideas for Its Mars Rocks Return Mission
The agency will seek new ideas for its Mars Sample Return program, expected to be billions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule.
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Politics
NASA Spots Signs of Twin Volcanic Plumes on Jupiter’s Moon Io
On Saturday, NASA’s Juno orbiter got a second close-up with Io, Jupiter’s third-largest moon and the most volcanic world of our solar system. The Juno spacecraft, which arrived at the gas giant in 2016, is on an extended mission to explore Jupiter’s ...
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Politics
American Company’s Spacecraft Malfunctions on Its Way to the Moon
After a flawless launch to orbit, the privately built robotic Peregrine lander is unlikely to reach the lunar surface because of a failure in its propulsion system.
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Politics
New Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape
Juno, a NASA mission designed to study Jupiter’s origins, sent back new views of the most eruptive world in the solar system.
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Politics
A Stunning Eclipse, a Moon Race and Other Space Events in 2024
India landed a robot on the moon and NASA brought pieces of an asteroid back to Earth to study. A green comet illuminated night skies and a “ring of fire” eclipse captivated spectators from Oregon to Brazil. SpaceX launched nearly 100 rockets, and ...
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Politics
The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last
AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the competition to find out which one.
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World
What It Feels Like to Be the Target of China’s Water Cannons
The Philippines invited journalists on a mission to provide fuel to fishermen in disputed waters of the South China Sea amid tensions between Beijing and Manila.
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World
Haiti, Desperate for Peace, Turns to Police Notorious for Violence
Police officers from Kenya are being dispatched to bring order to gang-ravaged Haiti, but in their own home country, they have been accused of brutality.
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World
The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down
The Battle of Mogadishu in early October 1993 shocked most Americans. U.S. forces had been deployed to Somalia to support a U.N. humanitarian mission, and had helped end a famine, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Ten months later, there was ...