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NASA probe 'touches the sun' in landmark spaceflight

It is one of the most extreme journeys a spacecraft has ever endured, coping with extreme radiation and temperatures close to the melting point of steel.

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Venus hotter than ever: third robotic explorer on the horizon

The planet Venus. /CFP A week after NASA announced two new missions to our solar system's hottest planet, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday it will launch a Venus-orbiting spacecra

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NASA plans two missions to Venus to find out why Earth is 'currently habitable' when other planets near us are not

The US space agency announced that the missions aim to shed light on its atmosphere and geologic features.

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NASA plans two new missions to Venus for the first time in decades

The US space agency announced that the missions aim to shed light on its atmosphere and geologic features.

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International space experts hail the landing of China's rover on Mars

Space experts from different countries and foreign media have applauded the successful landing of China's lander and rover on the Mars surface on Saturday.Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administr

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NASA releases Mars landing video: 'Stuff of our dreams'

02:27 NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the

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NASA releases Mars landing video: 'Stuff of our dreams'

02:27 NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and the

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NASA's Perseverance ready to land on Mars

Images from the Perseverance Rover. /NASA NASA's Perseverance rover is expected to make a touch down on Mars surface on February 18, according to a countdown timer on the space program's websi

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Scientific exploration at its best when there's cooperation

Editor's note: Shen Zhourong, a former aeronautical information service officer with the Air Traffic Management Bureau of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, is a lecturer at Beijing Inter

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Scientific exploration at its best when there's cooperation

If there is one thing that distinguishes China's herculean effort in expeditions to the moon from those made by the U.S. and the former USSR, it is China's launch which

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Scientific exploration at its best when there's cooperation

Editor's note: Shen Zhourong, a former aeronautical information service officer with the Air Traffic Management Bureau of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, is a lecturer at Beijing Inter

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Touch-and-go: U.S. spacecraft sampling asteroid for return

After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a

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James Webb Space Telescope launch pushed back to October 2021

NASA on Thursday postponed the launch of its 10 billion U.S. dollars James Webb Space Telescope from March next year to October 31, 2021, blaming the pandemic and other technical challenges.The te

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NASA names its next-generation Mars rover "Perseverance"

The U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday named its next-generation Mars rover "Perseverance." The rover is designed to better understand the geology of Mars and seek signs of ancient life and is sched

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The Mars 2020 rover has a new name: Perseverance

The next NASA rover to go to Mars has shed its code name and assumed a new one, sourced from the ingenuous youth of our nation. Keeping with the tradition of using virtues as names, the Mars 2020 rov

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NASA selects 4 possible missions to study secrets of solar system

NASA has selected four Discovery Program investigations to develop concept studies on the solar system, according to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Thursday. NASA's Discovery

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NASA selects 4 possible missions to study secrets of solar system

NASA has selected four Discovery Program investigations to develop concept studies on the solar system, according to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Thursday. NASA's Discovery