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NASA Launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Launched on August 30th, NASA’s newest flagship space observatory will go a long way toward filling in our understanding of questions on the forefront of astronomy and cosmology such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
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Mission Fails to Rescue Swift Observatory (Updated)
A daring mission tried but failed to save a key astrophysics observatory in low Earth orbit.
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Science Campaigns Planned for the August 12th Total Solar Eclipse
Several science campaigns plan to greet the racing shadow of the Moon on August 12th.
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Tianwen 2 Arrives at Quasi-Moon Kamoʻoalewa, Returns Images
China’s Tianwen 2 mission returns its close view of Earth's tiny "quasi-moon" Kamoʻoalewa.
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Hayabusa 2 Completes Flyby Past Asteroid Torifune
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission has revealed another "snowman" asteroid — a pair of asteroids attached with a narrow neck. The contact binary could help shed light on planet formation.
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NASA Announces Four New Lunar Lander Missions for 2028
NASA has awarded contracts to three aerospace companies for four lunar landers to launch in 2028.
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Mars MAVEN Mission Lost; NASA Says Farewell
NASA has announced that, after six months of trying to recover the MAVEN mission at Mars, they are saying goodbye.
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NASA's Psyche Sends Back Amazing Images of Mars
NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission made a course adjustment via a flyby past Mars en route to its final destination. Here's what it saw.
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SMILE: European Space Weather Mission Launches
An innovative new mission will probe the mystery of how the Earth’s magnetosphere interacts with the solar wind.
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SpaceX Booster Will Hit the Moon This August
The imminent lunar impact of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster highlights the growing amount of space debris near the Moon.
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Voyager 1 Shuts Down Another Instrument
Engineers have turned off an instrument that measured the density of charged particles in an effort to keep the aging Voyager 1 operational.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Is Ready to Fly
NASA has announced that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is all set for a September launch.
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Amazing Views From Artemis 2’s Historic Lunar Flyby
The Artemis 2 crew set records and provided amazing views — with more to come — as they journeyed around the Moon.
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Artemis 2 Mission Launches for Trip Around the Moon
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission has departed Earth, as humans return to cis-lunar space after more than 50 years.
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Europe's RAMSES Mission to Asteroid Apophis Moves Ahead
The RAMSES mission to the asteroid Apophis will launch in 2028 to meet the asteroid before its close encounter with Earth.
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Two New CubeSats to Monitor Nearby Stars and Distant Black Holes
Two new smallsat missions, named SPARCS and BlackCAT, promise to examine stellar flares and explosions in the early universe.
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Pandora Mission Launches to Explore Atmospheres on Alien Worlds
NASA's new, small observatory — launched successfully on January 11th — has a big mission: to characterize exoplanet atmospheres.
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Spaceflight for Astronomy — A Look Back and Ahead
The highlights of spaceflight in 2025 have included missions to explore the Moon, Mars, and the Sun — and more is coming in the New Year.
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The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Celebrates 30 Years in Space
The groundbreaking mission designed to observe our Sun and its interactions with Earth celebrates three decades in space this week.
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First Private Space Telescope Launches Successfully
A small space telescope may signal a big new trend for modern astronomy.
