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To all the space probes we’ve loved before: sorry! You fell into Saturn, drifted into deep space, suffocated in Martian dust—all for the greater good of science. Today, we’re memorializing the space explorers that met dramatic endings far, far from Earth.

The Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night) is on a quest to unravel the mysteries of the Dark Ages.

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 25, 2023 - The cosmic lineage of the second-generation carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu can be traced back to a distant past and a far-flung location in our solar system, according to recent studies on the space ro

[The Epoch Times, February 10, 2023](Epoch Times reporter Jiang Zhuzhu compiled and reported by New Zealand) According to a report by RNZ on February 7, 2023, a comet will pass the earth again this week in 50,000 years. Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF), from the distant Oort Cloud, is currently visible from the Northern Hemisphere. However,…

Known as the Committee on the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, it designates a Uranus Orbiter and Probe as the highest-priority flagship mission.

Feb. 7, 2022 -- Supercomputer-enabled models generated at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing

Based on data from the Cassini spacecraft mission, a Southwest Research Institute scientist has uncovered evidence of a liquid internal ocean on a tiny moon of Saturn called Mimas.

The Last Images From Doomed Space Probes Share To all the space probes we’ve loved before: sorry! You fell into Saturn, drifted into deep space, suffocated in Martian dust — all for the greater good of science. Today, we’re memorialising the space explorers that met dramatic endings far, far from Earth. Cassini, Saturn Cassini, after orbiting Saturn for 13 fruitful years, was decommissioned in 2017 in one of the most epic ways imaginable, as NASA engineers instructed the probe to plunge d...