On November 27th, people waited with bated breath as NASA landed its eighth spacecraft, InSight, on Mars. The mission? To spend two years gathering in

Two spacecrafts born in 2007 and 2009 died recently. Wait, how can a spacecraft die? Well, when scientists send a spacecraft into space, that spacecra

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Two little rovers just did something pretty incredible: They landed on an asteroid and sent pictures of their initial exploration back to Earth. Amazi

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Astronauts have been having a little bit of fun in space lately. After all, it can’t be all space work all the time, right? Well, astronauts do

If you think outer space is nice and clean, think again. Recent research by an Australian-Turkish team shows that there is plenty of grease in space.

Even though Mars is considered too dry and cold for water to exist on its surface, scientists recently found large amounts of water trapped under the

Launched on April 24th, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is the first major optical telescope placed in space. Operating now for twenty-eight years an