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NASA to launch Lucy probe to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will be hurled into space on a 12-year expedition to study a record number of asteroids.

Australia to build lunar rover for NASA to find oxygen on moon

The agreement will strengthen a relationship related to space exploration that dates back more than 50 years, says NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

Six galaxies live ‘fast and furious’ lives, run out of fuel to make stars

An article published in Nature suggests six galaxies discovered with the cooperation of the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) died off because they ran out of cold hydrogen gas ‘needed to make stars.’

Rocks collected by Mars rover Perseverance boost case for ancient life

NASA's Perseverance collected the first of numerous mineral samples from the surface of the Red Planet that may have trapped tiny bubbles of ancient Martian water.

NASA's Perseverance rover collects first rock sample from Mars

The sample was collected on September 1, but NASA was initially unsure whether the rover had successfully held onto its precious cargo, because initial images taken in poor light were unclear.

NASA's Mars rover fails to collect rock in search of alien life

NASA mission drills hole on Mars as the first step of a sampling process that is expected to take about 11 days, with the aim of looking for signs of ancient microbial life that may have been preserved in ancient lakebed deposits.

NASA picks SpaceX for mission to Jupiter's moon Europa

The Europa Clipper mission will launch in October 2024 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the total contract worth $178 million.

Astronauts perform third spacewalk to install solar panels outside ISS

NASA's Shane Kimbrough and France's Thomas Pesquet tackled the second in a series of powerful solar wings that should keep the space station running the rest of this decade, as space tourism ramps up with visitors beginning in the fall.

NASA announces two new robotic missions to Venus

One mission, named DaVinci Plus, will analyse the thick, cloudy Venusian atmosphere. The other, called Veritas, will seek a geologic history by mapping the rocky planet’s surface.

China's Zhurong rover begins exploring Mars

The Mars probe and rover are expected to spend around three months taking photos, harvesting geographical data and collecting and analysing rock samples.

Meet the pioneering Gurcay brothers, NASA’s new Turkish business partners

The Gurcay brothers have developed a unique technique to produce nanosilver developed through natural methods.

Osiris-Rex spacecraft heads to Earth with asteroid rubble

The spacecraft, which began its two-year journey home on Monday, holds between 200 grams and 400 grams of asteroid chunks — the biggest cosmic haul for the US since the Apollo moon rocks.