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See Multiple International Space Station Passes This Fourth of July Weekend
Early July is a great time to catch multiple passes of the International Space Station passes in a single night. Here's why.
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Japanese Resilience Lander Crashes on the Moon
A second try for a successful Moon landing for the iSpace company in Japan, with its Resilience lander, ended in silence.
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China Launches Tianwen 2 Asteroid Sample Return Mission
China joins the asteroid sample return game, with the ambitious Tianwen 2 mission.
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SpaceX Launches Historic Polar Mission
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the skies over the Florida Space Coast Monday night, with the last mission of March 2025. Aboard were four crew members with a unique goal: to reach a polar orbit around the Earth.
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EZIE Mission Launches to Study the Aurora
EZIE has launched successfully, poised to probe a poorly understood aspect linking space weather to dazzling aurora.
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A Total Solar Eclipse — from the Moon
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission on the Moon has captured a total solar eclipse — but from a lunar perspective.
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Europe's Hera Mission Swings Past Mars, Sees Deimos
The Hera mission sent back unprecedented views of the Martian moon Deimos as a prelude to the mission's final destination: the asteroid Didymos.
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Two Missions Launch: One to See the Sun, the Other to See the Universe
A successful rocket launch takes two innovative space science satellites — NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions — to orbit.
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Intuitive Machines' Athena Lands on the Moon, Then Dies
Athena landed in the lunar south pole region but fell on its side. After its batteries quickly depleted, the mission ended.
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Blue Ghost Lands on the Moon (Update: New Photo)
Blue Ghost makes a pinpoint landing on the surface of the Moon.
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Second Intuitive Machines Mission Heads to the Moon
The space company Intuitive Machines is making their second bid for the Moon, which includes the launch of the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment 1 (PRIME-1).
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New Rover Will Head to the Moon in VIPER's Place
The company Venturi Astrolab will take the slot left vacant on Griffin Mission One, which could head to the Moon later this year.
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Blue Ghost Lunar Lander Heads to the Moon
The first two lunar missions of 2025 — Firefly's Blue Ghost and iSpace's second Hakuto R mission — are now headed to the Moon.
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New Mercury Images from BepiColombo's Flyby
The BepiColombo mission has sent back one last preview before it enters orbit around its final destination: Mercury.
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NASA's New Plans For Returning Samples from Mars
As Perseverance continues to explore Mars, the NASA and ESA agencies are deciding how best to retrieve the samples it has been collecting.
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Space Missions to Watch in 2025
Space-weather sentinels, commercial lunar missions, and lots of planetary flybys are on tap this year.
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See NASA's Lucy Mission Fly Past Earth Tonight
NASA’s Lucy mission makes another visit to Earth Thursday night, en route to explore the Trojan asteroids.
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Proba 3 Mission Launches to See the Solar Corona
The pioneering observatory will use two spacecraft to create artificial solar eclipses from Earth orbit in order to study the solar corona.
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NASA Announces Potential Sites for Artemis 3 Mission to the Moon
NASA has chosen nine potential landing sites near the Moon’s south pole for Artemis 3’s crewed lunar landing.
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New Coronagraph Is Observing the Sun
A new coronagraph mission is now orbiting Earth on a mission to provide direct observations of the Sun for space-weather forecasts.
