Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.

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A researcher has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is a large fraction of the size ...

The Mars Sample Return mission has been ranked as the highest priority by planetary scientists, who hope to find signs of ...

New models reveal Pluto and Charon may have spent some of their early history locked together in an embrace after a grazing ...

Apex Legends update 2.75 is out now (version 1.000.089 on PS5/XSX), and this brings the Astral Anomaly content and changes.

A NASA postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute has used advanced models that indicate that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems ...

An audit by NASA in 2011 found that at least 517 of their “astromaterial samples” were lost or stolen between 1970 and June ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each ...

The moon, Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor, has fascinated humanity for centuries. Its presence in art, literature, and ...

Stunning timelapse footage shows the Kilauea volcano spitting lava in Hawaii. The video showing molten rocks spewing out from the crater was captured from the northwest rim of the Halema'uma'u crater ...

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