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Solar System
NASA spots InSight Mars lander and Curiosity rover from space (photos)
The new photo is the best-ever look at the InSight lander on the surface of Mars
Space Exploration
NASA’s first SLS megarocket launch to the Moon could be delayed to 2021
The Space Launch System megarocket will eventually take humans back to the Moon in 2024
Space Exploration
Space junk menace: New guidelines urged to help fight orbital debris threat
Spacecraft designers and operators need to be proactive, a new organisation argues
Solar System
Interstellar Comet Borisov looks pretty normal, new observations suggest
These results are based of observations made in September 2019 using telescopes in Spain and Hawaii
Space Exploration
Boeing aims to launch unpiloted Starliner test flight to space station in December
Liftoff is targeted for 17 December 2019
Deep Space
A churning ‘molten blob’ of planet may be easier to find. Here’s why
Molten planets could hold clues as to how a planet eventually becomes habitable, much like Earth
Space Exploration
SpaceX could launch NASA astronauts into space in early 2020
Crew Dragon is nearly ready to go
Space Exploration
NASA wants to encourage private space stations
commercial companies could build their own space stations and utilise the unique environment of low-Earth orbit
Deep Space
Event Horizon Telescope snags new funding to capture first movie of a black hole
The first black hole image, announced in April 2019, received a sublime reception and everyone wants more
Space Exploration
Blue Origin probably won’t launch people to space this year
2020 is a more likely target
Space Exploration
Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe drops its last rover on asteroid Ryugu
The space probe has released its fourth, and final, rover onto the asteroid’s surface at a different height from the others
Deep Space
Neptune-size exomoon candidate may be the captured core of a giant planet
The mysterious Kepler-1625b-i and its parent planet may once have been siblings
Space Exploration
‘Totally nuts’? Elon Musk aims to put a Starship in orbit in six months. Here’s SpaceX’s plan
The landmark orbital flight will likely be made by the fourth or fifth full-size Starship prototype
Space Exploration
NASA hands out $43 million for ‘Tipping Point’ tech for the Moon and Mars
Blue Origin and SpaceX are among the winners
Solar System
‘Oumuamua and Borisov are just the beginning of an interstellar object bonanza
Discovering objects from other solar system is only on the rise and will continue to be with the introduction of new telescopes
Space Exploration
Elon Musk just dropped more tantalising details about SpaceX’s Starship prototype
The Starship Mk1 will be 50 metres (165 feet) tall and weigh 1,270 tonnes (1,400 tons) when fuelled
Deep Space
Rare discovery! Three monster black holes are about to collide
They’re at the core of a triple galaxy merger one billion light years from Earth
Space Exploration
NASA wants to test new Moon spacesuits on the space station in 2023
The space agency have called for a new space suit to compliment their Artemis program
Space Exploration
NASA wants a new space telescope to protect us all from dangerous asteroids
The organisation want to rehash an old mission concept for planetary defence, instead of the initially-intended science aims