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After a rocket uses up its fuel, the tank generally just becomes dead weight, but a prototype rocket that burns its own fuselage as propellant could solve that problem

After its 8 January launch aboard a Vulcan rocket, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander has experienced a fuel leak that may leave it without enough propellant to land on the moon

Under the leadership of the University of Arizona's Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina, the former OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sets off on a journey to study asteroid Apophis and take advantage of the asteroid's 2029 flyby of Earth.

Synopsis:NASA and JAXA's XRISM mission showcases its initial findings, revealing detailed X-ray data collected by its Resolve and Xtend instruments. These snaps

There are some very heavy tasks. particularly of infrastructure. roads are damaged. they are cracked. trucks cannot go into these impacted areas. getting food is proving to be a struggle. we saw video from one grocery store that recently opened up. even rations for rice are difficult to get. so until these infrastructure problems are solved, its still going to be very much a difficult story out of japan. >> thank you for following all of it. thank you. now early this morning, the first u.s. lu...

And liftoff of the first united launch ix vulcan rocket launching a new era in space flight to the moon and beyond. >> if all goes to plan, the peregrine will touch down on the 23rd after taking off from cape canaveral. its expected to be the first commercial mission to land on moon. kristen fisher joins us now, and tell us about this because i wasnt really aware of it until all of a sudden i saw amazing pictures this morning, and this is history. >> reporter: yeah, phil. this was such a signifi...

A space mission that will deposit a whole lot of human remains on the moon appears to be moving forward despite the Navajo Nation's objections. Navajo Nation President Buu...

Scientists are charting landing spots that offer future lunar astronauts protection from the Sun and deep space.

A Topeka-area resident's ashes are to be rocketed out to deep space Jan. 8 along with ashes of actors who were part of the TV series "Star Trek."

The year ahead promises to deliver some spectacular pursuits, pushing human and scientific exploration of the cosmos further than it’s gone in decades.