The Philae lander’s unfortunately bumpy arrival on comet 67P six years ago, bouncing across the surface and landing on its side, made it impossible to
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will land on an asteroid to bring home rocks and dust – if it can avoid Mt. Doom
This artist’s rendering shows OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending toward asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Imagine parallel parking a
Expedition 64 space craft docks with the International Space Station
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos arrive at the International Space Station.
2020 is the “Year of Mars” with three space ships headed to Mars
In the next few months there will be three separate missions heading to Mars, from three very different space agencies. This year has involved major