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Politics
NASA Spent $450 Million on a Moon Rover. Now It’s Canceling the Mission.
Delays and concerns about NASA’s future budgets doomed the VIPER mission, which aimed to search for ice near the moon’s…
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Politics
NASA Searching for New Ideas for Its Mars Rocks Return Mission
The agency will seek new ideas for its Mars Sample Return program, expected to be billions of dollars over budget…
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Politics
NASA Spots Signs of Twin Volcanic Plumes on Jupiter’s Moon Io
On Saturday, NASA’s Juno orbiter got a second close-up with Io, Jupiter’s third-largest moon and the most volcanic world of…
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Politics
American Company’s Spacecraft Malfunctions on Its Way to the Moon
After a flawless launch to orbit, the privately built robotic Peregrine lander is unlikely to reach the lunar surface because…
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New Images of Jupiter’s Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape
Juno, a NASA mission designed to study Jupiter’s origins, sent back new views of the most eruptive world in the…
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A Stunning Eclipse, a Moon Race and Other Space Events in 2024
India landed a robot on the moon and NASA brought pieces of an asteroid back to Earth to study. A…
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Politics
The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last
AstroForge, a private company, wants to mine a space rock, but it doesn’t want the competition to find out which…
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World
What It Feels Like to Be the Target of China’s Water Cannons
The Philippines invited journalists on a mission to provide fuel to fishermen in disputed waters of the South China Sea…
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World
Haiti, Desperate for Peace, Turns to Police Notorious for Violence
Police officers from Kenya are being dispatched to bring order to gang-ravaged Haiti, but in their own home country, they…
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World
The Secret Memo From the General Who Foresaw Black Hawk Down
The Battle of Mogadishu in early October 1993 shocked most Americans. U.S. forces had been deployed to Somalia to support…