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Russia is apparently getting ready to return to the searing surface of Venus. The nation wants to launch Venera-D — a multi-vehicle mission involving a lander, balloon and orbiter —

NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity acquired this image of a pitted vertical rock face dubbed “Timboy Chaco” on March 5, 2026. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has spied a

Scientists have discovered that a sample of the Ryugu asteroid collected by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft contains the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil, the building blocks of DNA

SpaceX’s biggest, most powerful Starship to date just breathed fire for the first time. On Monday (March 16), the company conducted a static fire test with Starship‘s “Super Heavy” first

What does it mean to be the first humans in decades to fly to the moon? The Artemis 2 astronauts will do just that on their historic mission around the

The Artemis 2 astronauts pose for a photograph alongside their zero gravity indicator on March 27, 2026 after arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA/John Kraus)

Astronomers have discovered dozens of faint ribbons of stars in the outskirts of the Milky Way using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. The findings were made using

You’ve probably heard it said by now: NASA’s Artemis 2 mission was the first to launch astronauts toward the moon in more than 50 years. But that was just the

Artemis II has launched, sending a crew of four astronauts on a mission to circle the moon and back to Earth, the first step toward planned lunar landings and eventual

NASA’s historic Artemis 2 mission will return to Earth today (April 10) to end a 10-day test flight around the moon. The four astronaut crew return home with a splashdown