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Steam-powered space probe could work forever
1-22-2019 |
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Scientists have developed a prototype for a steam-powered spacecraft that can refuel itself with water.
Cotton seeds have started growing on the Moon
1-15-2019 | 26
In a world first, seeds carried to the Moon aboard China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft have actually started to sprout.
First ever image from Moon's far side revealed
VIDEO 1-3-2019 | 28
China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft has made history by being the first ever to touch down on the far side of the Moon.
Starship prototype could fly within months
12-25-2018 | 10
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has provided a sneak peak of the firm's prototype interplanetary Starship spacecraft.
Voyager 2 has now entered interstellar space
VIDEO 12-10-2018 | 8
NASA has confirmed that the probe has become the second spacecraft ever to leave the heliosphere.
NASA's InSight lander records the Martian wind
VIDEO 12-7-2018 | 5
NASA has released the first ever recording of the wind buffeting a spacecraft on the surface of Mars.
China to venture to the far side of the Moon
VIDEO 12-6-2018 | 34
China's latest space mission will, for the first time, see a spacecraft attempt to land on the Moon's far side.
Planet-hunting probe finds two new candidates
9-23-2018 | 0
A mere two months after beginning operations, NASA's TESS spacecraft has found two new extrasolar worlds.
Mission to the Sun will launch on August 4th
VIDEO 7-6-2018 | 5
NASA's $1.5 billion Parker Solar Probe will be venturing closer to the Sun than any spacecraft in history.
New Horizons ready to explore the Kuiper Belt
6-10-2018 |
Following its visit to Pluto back in 2015, the spacecraft has been on its way to Kuiper belt object MU69.
Probe to study solar system's protective bubble
6-4-2018 | 0
NASA is launching a spacecraft to study the heliosphere - a bubble which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Planet-hunting probe captures first image
VIDEO 5-20-2018 | 19
NASA's new spacecraft has returned a breathtaking two-second exposure which features over 200,000 stars.
New evidence of geysers on Europa discovered
VIDEO 5-15-2018 | 2
Decades-old data from the Galileo spacecraft has all-but confirmed the presence of geysers on Jupiter's icy moon.
NASA's InSight lander is on its way to Mars
VIDEO 5-5-2018 | 10
The spacecraft blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard an Atlas V rocket earlier today.
New spacecraft could nuke incoming asteroids
3-11-2018 | 21
NASA is working with US nuclear authorities to develop a spacecraft that can nuke dangerous space rocks.
Billionaire to fund alien-hunting mission
11-12-2017 | 31
Yuri Milner is looking to send a spacecraft to Enceladus to look for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Millennium Falcon spotted in a field in Surrey
VIDEO 11-8-2017 | 10
Eagle-eyed Star Wars fans have spotted the iconic spacecraft sitting under a tarp near a golf club.
Cassini set for total destruction on Friday
9-11-2017 | 34
NASA's long-lived Cassini spacecraft will begin its final descent in to Saturn's atmosphere this week.
Cassini flies in to Saturn's upper atmosphere
8-14-2017 | 3
The spacecraft embarked upon the first of its final five orbits around the gas giant earlier today.
Voyager 1 and 2 still going strong 40 years on
VIDEO 8-1-2017 | 17
This month marks four decades since NASA's two pioneering spacecraft headed off to visit the gas giants.
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