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25 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 11, 2026.
The CHAPEA volunteers grew crops, rationed supplies, rehearsed spacewalks and worked through communication delays; NASA says the lessons will shape Moon and Mars planning.
The car-sized rover crossed the 42.195-kilometer mark on its 1,890th Martian day while exploring ancient terrain west of Jezero Crater, shattering the pace set by its predecessor Opportunity.
Recent discoveries of more stable motion among distant Kuiper Belt objects are casting doubt on the existence of a massive undiscovered planet beyond Neptune.
Researchers demonstrate that compact satellite-based instrument could reveal complete elemental composition across entire lunar surface.
Tokyo researchers show lightweight detector could identify key elements across entire lunar surface in two-year mission.
The mission will explore largely uncharted regions of the Milky Way, potentially revealing more alien worlds than all previous missions combined.
The latest iteration of the massive rocket completed its first test flight with mixed results as SpaceX continues rapid development.
The latest iteration of SpaceX's massive rocket showed progress despite remaining technical challenges in its first test flight.
Accelerated timeline brings infrared observatory ahead of original May 2027 deadline to explore dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets.
The probe will skim just 2,800 miles above Mars on Friday to gain gravitational boost while testing instruments and capturing rare crescent views of the Red Planet.
The company is starting to transition away from the Falcon 9 as it focuses resources on next-generation systems for deep space exploration.
Former Apollo astronaut Fred Haise expresses happiness about passing on his long-standing record to the next generation of lunar explorers.
Advanced simulations reveal carbon and hydrogen forming a strange hybrid phase where atoms behave part solid, part fluid under crushing planetary pressures.
Astronaut shares details about what it was really like to fly and land in NASA's next-generation crew vehicle.
The four-person NASA crew traveled 252,756 miles from Earth — 4,111 miles beyond the Apollo 13 record — and photographed the lunar far side that no human eyes had ever directly seen.
European space mission secures new launch opportunity after previous partnerships collapsed, marking end of long saga of setbacks and diplomatic complications.
Artemis II crew completes successful lunar flyby mission, setting stage for debates over next steps in America's moon exploration program.
The four-person crew made an emotional reunion with families in Houston following their successful lunar flyby, the first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo 17.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen returned Thursday after a 10-day mission that took humans farther from Earth than any crew since Gene Cernan left the Moon 54 years ago.
A mission that took four astronauts farther than any human has ever traveled in the history of mankind has made people feel a little trippy.
The administration seeks significant reductions to the space agency's funding even as the historic lunar mission progresses successfully behind the Moon.
The four-member Artemis II crew, now closer to the Moon than Earth on Flight Day 3, are sending back deep-space photographs of Earth while preparing for a historic lunar flyby and a record-breaking distance from home.
NASA's boldest mission in generations sends four astronauts toward lunar orbit in major milestone for space exploration.
WatchFour astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft "Integrity" successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, beginning a 10-day mission that includes a lunar flyby and a record-setting journey 4,700 miles beyond the Moon.
WatchFour astronauts will fly 450,000 miles around the Moon and back starting Wednesday, ending a 54-year hiatus on crewed lunar missions. An 80 percent favorable weather forecast greeted the crew as they entered quarantine at Kennedy Space Center.