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Japanese Space Agency names arrival date for BepiColombo Mercury mission

Chinese, HK Investors Banned From SpaceX IPO on Security Grounds

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - MARCH 14: (EDITOR'S NOTE: This Handout image was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images' editorial policy.) In this NASA handout, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station takes off at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on March 14, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

See the 'crawling,' ball-shaped robot that rolled around the moon during Japan's historic first landing

See the 'crawling,' ball-shaped robot that rolled around the moon during Japan's historic first landing A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface. When the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft, nicknamed the "Moon Sniper," face-planted onto the lunar surface in 2024, an experimental rover told Earth scientists what happened. Rolling autonomously through the lunar...

Can solar sails really send humans out into interstellar space?

Can solar sails really send humans out into interstellar space? "I think these are not far-out type of ideas; they are not really futuristic ideas that we are talking about." If humankind ever travels to distant stars, we might sail there — and it might be sooner than you think.

Is this the next Artemis crew? A look at the astronauts on NASA's shortlist

Is this the next Artemis crew? A look at the astronauts on NASA's shortlist It's a long list, but there are some front runners. NASA is about to reveal the astronauts who will launch to space on the Artemis 3 mission.

The American Missile Crisis

Recent global conflicts, from Russia and Ukraine to Iran and Israel, have seen a resurgent awareness of the frailty of US munitions stock, which has been drawn down by both direct and indirect involvement in these events. While exact stockpile volumes are not disclosed, it is estimated that supplies of US warheads and the missiles that carry them have declined by nearly an order of magnitude since their peak during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Analysts have estimated that in the event of a...