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ESA Backs ispace’s RESILIENCE Lander Ahead of June 5 Lunar Landing

Japanese private venture ispace’s RESILIENCE lander, carrying Europe’s first micro-rover, has completed orbital maneuvers and will attempt touchdown on June 5 UTC at Mare Frigoris, with ESA’s ground-station network handling communications.

2025-06-03T04:26:39.833922-07:00

NASA Spaceflight

NASA’s Dragonfly to Launch in 2028 for Aerial Search for Life on Titan

2025-06-01T14:50:22.336175-07:00

Space.com

FY2026 US Budget Cuts NASA by 24%, Sunsets Gateway, Launches Commercial Mars Payload Program

2025-05-30T20:40:28.055843-07:00

Reuters

China Launches Tianwen-2 Mission to Retrieve Asteroid and Comet Samples

2025-05-29T02:31:05.994368-07:00

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ESA Backs ispace’s RESILIENCE Lander Ahead of June 5 Lunar Landing Japanese private venture ispace’s RESILIENCE lander, carrying Europe’s first micro-rover, has completed orbital maneuvers and will attempt touchdown on June 5 UTC at Mare Frigoris, with ESA’s ground-station network handling communications.

2025-06-03T04:26:39.833922-07:00

ESA Backs ispace’s RESILIENCE Lander Ahead of June 5 Lunar Landing

Associated Press

Planetarium’s Milky Way Show at American Museum of Natural History Uncovers New Solar System Insight The American Museum of Natural History’s new planetarium presentation on the Milky Way has enabled researchers to reveal a previously hidden characteristic of our solar system using immersive visualization instead of high-cost telescopes. This approach highlights the power of advanced visualization tools for scientific discovery.

2025-06-03T02:45:36.562665-07:00

Planetarium’s Milky Way Show at American Museum of Natural History Uncovers New Solar System Insight

Universe Today

New Trajectory Cuts Mars Transit to 90 Days Using SpaceX Starship UCSB physicist Jack Kingdom’s recent paper identifies a ballistic trajectory enabling a round-trip to Mars in just three months aboard SpaceX’s Starship, bypassing the need for nuclear propulsion and reshaping mission architecture considerations for rapid interplanetary travel.

2025-06-02T14:15:37.018194-07:00

New Trajectory Cuts Mars Transit to 90 Days Using SpaceX Starship

The Independent

Hubble and Gaia Data Slash Certainty of Milky Way–Andromeda Collision New analysis using over a decade of Hubble Space Telescope and ESA Gaia observations shows only a 50% chance that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will collide within the next ten billion years, challenging century-old predictions of an inevitable merger in roughly 4.5 billion years.

2025-06-02T11:33:17.452219-07:00

Hubble and Gaia Data Slash Certainty of Milky Way–Andromeda Collision

Toronto Star

How to keep astronauts healthy in deep space Driven by the Artemis lunar program and future Mars missions, researchers are studying spaceflight’s impact on physiology — from microgravity-induced bone loss to radiation effects — to develop new medical countermeasures. These innovations have already yielded Earthside breakthroughs in diagnostics, drug delivery and rehabilitation.

2025-06-02T11:13:30.329625-07:00

How to keep astronauts healthy in deep space

NASA Spaceflight

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NASA’s Dragonfly to Launch in 2028 for Aerial Search for Life on Titan Scheduled for July 2028, NASA’s Dragonfly, the agency’s fourth New Frontiers mission, will launch to Saturn’s moon Titan with a nuclear-powered rotorcraft to map the surface, analyze organic compounds and evaluate Titan’s potential to support life.

2025-06-01T14:50:22.336175-07:00

NASA’s Dragonfly to Launch in 2028 for Aerial Search for Life on Titan

Associated Press

ESA Beams Strauss’s ‘Blue Danube’ to Voyager 1 as Vienna Concert Marks Space Debut The European Space Agency’s deep-space antenna in Spain on Saturday beamed Johann Strauss II’s celebrated “Blue Danube” waltz into the cosmos, directing the music at Voyager 1 nearly 50 years after it was omitted from NASA’s original Voyager program and coinciding with a concert in Vienna.

2025-05-31T23:14:02.793157-07:00

ESA Beams Strauss’s ‘Blue Danube’ to Voyager 1 as Vienna Concert Marks Space Debut

IEEE

How NASA’s Sojourner and Its Sister Marie Curie Pioneered Mars Rover Exploration In 1997, NASA’s Sojourner rover became the first mobile explorer on Mars, transmitting images and chemical analyses that captivated millions on Earth. Its identical testbed, Marie Curie, remained on Earth to refine mission operations, together laying the technological and operational groundwork for every rover that followed.

2025-05-31T07:12:49.833377-07:00

How NASA’s Sojourner and Its Sister Marie Curie Pioneered Mars Rover Exploration

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