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If successful, the mission will place China in a group of a handful of countries — including the United States and Japan — ...

Twenty years ago, the US Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They’ve made progress finding these asteroids that orbit the Sun and come to within 1.3 ...

Over at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the Shanxi Province, a CZ-6A launched Yaogan 40 Group 02 into polar orbit on ...

A combination of a dynamo-generated magnetic field and massive impacts could explain the highly magnetized rocks in some ...

While the moon once had a weak magnetic field generated by a small molten core, the team's research suggests it likely wouldn ...

At the very edge of our solar system, beyond the grasp of Neptune and even past the icy sprawl of Pluto’s domain, a new ...

The Kinetica-1 rocket launched Wednesday for the first time since a failure doomed its previous attempt to reach orbit in ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

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