The students who developed a plan to stop Armageddon

In the 1960s, when the possibility of an asteroid impact alarmed the American public for the first time, MIT students drafted ...
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NASA's latest ESCAPADE mission will unravel how Mars lost its atmosphere

NASA's ESCAPADE would be the first multi-satellite mission to another planet and would map Mars's magnetic field and ...
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Private Chinese rocket fails during launch, 3 satellites lost

A private Chinese rocket just suffered its second-ever failure. Galactic Energy's solid-fuel Ceres-1 rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:02 p.m. EST on ...

NASA quietly sends two spacecraft to Mars — and they're going a new way

The U.S. space agency has fallen silent amid the federal government shutdown, but it's about to slingshot a pair of robotic ...