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Musk Still Thinks Mars Is a Go for 2026, Despite Starship’s Epic Losing Streak
The SpaceX CEO outlined upcoming changes to the rocket while staying committed to a 2026 mission to the Red Planet.
Martian probe rolls over to see subsurface ice and rock
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), launched by NASA in 2005, is orbiting Mars tasked with studying its atmosphere, ...
China's latest spacecraft aims to bring 'groundbreaking' samples back from asteroid near Mars
The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary ...
Listen to the eerie sounds of Mars recorded by a NASA rover
A NASA rover ambling over the red desert planet for the past four years has been recording audio of Mars. In this alien world ...
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China launches challenging mission to retrieve asteroid samples
China embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 ...
China launches spacecraft it says will return samples and yield ’groundbreaking discoveries’
China launches Tianwen-2 probe to collect asteroid samples near Mars, aiming to expand humanity's cosmic knowledge.
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Sampling a 'quasi-moon': What's next for China's newly launched Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling mission
The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...
China’s Tianwen-2 mission launches to explore asteroid that may be a lunar fragment
China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...
SpaceX launches another Starship rocket after back-to-back explosions, but it tumbles out of control
After back-to-back explosions, SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship again on Tuesday evening, but fell short of the main objectives when the spacecraft tumbled out of control and broke apart.