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A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the Moon. It won't be the firstThe very first human-made artefact to make contact with the Moon was the Soviet Luna 2 in 1959 - an extraordinary feat, as it was only two ...
NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubbleIt will be the biggest cosmic haul for the U.S. since the Apollo moon rocks. While NASA has returned comet dust and solar wind samples, thi...
Neither a comet, nor asteroid: Mystery interstellar object is cookie-shaped planet shard of Pluto-like worldThe strange 148-foot object that appears to be made of frozen nitrogen.
Earth mini-moons may provide testing grounds for space missionsThese small and fast-moving visitors have so-far evaded detection by existing technology, with only one confirmed mini-moon discovery to da...
NASA building space shotgun to blast asteroidsNASA is developing shotgun that can blast asteroids into small pieces for collection as samples when robotic spacecraft reaches near such s...
11 facts about NASA's epic nuclear-powered mission to PlutoOn July 14, an epic once-in-a-lifetime event will take place: NASA will fly their spacecraft, New Horizons, by Pluto.
Meteorite's magnetic memory gives clues to Earth's futureThese 'nano-paleomagnetic' measurements, the highest-resolution paleomagnetic measurements ever made, were performed at the BESSY II synchr...