The law doesn’t protect sites on the Moon – a lawyer describes a framework that could
This oblique view of the Moon's surface was photographed by the Apollo 10 astronauts in May of 1969. Credit: NASA ...
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Failed Soviet-era spacecraft returned to Earth on Saturday
Back to Article List Debris from the 50 year-old probe Cosmos 482 crash-landed into the Indian Ocean over the weekend. ...
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Behind the Iron Curtain: The Soviet Venera program
Editor’s note: This story was originally published Aug. 26, 2020. It was updated May 9, 2025, with details of the ...
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More than 50 years later, a failed Soviet spacecraft is about to return to Earth
A mock-up of the Soviet Union's Venera 7 probe, similar to Kosmos 482, a Venus lander is expected to crash ...
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Peanut-shaped surprise for Lucy in asteroid flyby
Back to Article List Asteroid Donaldjohanson was the second destination on the NASA mission’s itinerary — and its size and ...
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PUNCH sees first light
Back to Article List The constellation of four satellites can take both narrow- and wide-field images of the Sun to ...
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German firm eyes Thursday for Europe’s first commercial orbital launch
Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum is expected to be the first commercial orbital launch vehicle to lift off from mainland Europe, departing ...
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Martian moon caught on camera during Hera flyby
Back to Article List The mysterious Deimos was spotted while ESA’s planetary defense mission travels to its target asteroid. This ...
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Radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Voyager 1, shown in this illustration, has operated for decades thanks to a radioisotope power system. Credit: NASA via AP ...
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Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander nails lunar mission
Shortly after landing, Blue Ghost sent back this stunning photo of its own shadow with the Earth above the lunar ...
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