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'Mars Horizon' review: Design rockets, run missions and compete for glory in this addictive space adventure

As you unlock milestones and complete missions, you find yourself waging a PR battle with the other space agencies and also with your own funders. If you do well, the other agencies will give you a few Easter eggs (I got free Venus flyby development tech), ...

Biden's 2022 NASA budget proposal gives science and commercial space a boost

And although Biden did not propose delaying the 2024 moon landing — a timeline set by the previous presidential administration — NASA Chief Financial Officer Steve Shinn acknowledged that the ambitious mission could be delayed. Related: Presidential ...

Five launches planned from Florida's Space Coast in June

The launch rate to start 2021 is a record for orbital missions from Cape Canaveral. The cadence has largely been driven by SpaceX's rapid deployment of Starlink internet satellites. In an interview, Eno said the pace ...

Mars helicopter 'muscles through' navigation glitch on sixth flight

Ingenuity overcame the glitch, which engineers traced to part of the helicopter's navigation system. The helicopter limped through the rest of its flight and safely landed about 16 feet (5 meters) from its planned touchdown location, NASA said.

SpaceX CRS-22 mission to space station launches water bears, squid, solar panels

Cell Science-04 flies tardigrades, or water bears, to the space station for a study seeking to identify the genes involved in its adaptation and survival in high stress environments. Credit: Thomas Boothby, University of Wyoming. The 22nd SpaceX cargo ...

NASA's Curiosity rover spots strange, colorful clouds on Mars

The image is a combination of 21 individual photographs the rover took recently to study a strange type of wispy cloud over its Gale Crater home. Scientists realized two Earth years ago that the cloud type was forming earlier in the Martian year than they ...

Milky Way's galactic core overflows with colorful threads in new Chandra panorama (video, photos)

At the center of our Milky Way galaxy, threads of superheated gas and magnetic fields weave around each other to create a spectacular galactic display captured in a striking new panoramic image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This new image of ...

Mercury and Venus will be at their closest until 2033 tonight, but may be hard to spot

The pair of planets will be visible low in the western sky for roughly 30 to 40 minutes after sunset, according to EarthSky. Observing will be tough given you may be competing with buildings and air pollution to see the planets, so bring binoculars if you can.

Breakthrough in 3D magnetic nanostructures could transform modern-day computing

Scientists have taken a step towards the creation of powerful devices that harness magnetic charge by creating the first ever three-dimensional replica of a material known as a spin-ice. Spin ice materials are extremely unusual as they possess so-called ...

MOXIE Might Be the Most Exciting Thing Perseverance Has Brought to Mars

IEEE Spectrum

IEEE Spectrum

This is what MOXIE does on Mars: it pulls in CO2 from the Martian atmosphere (which is 96% CO2), filters it, compresses it, and then uses solid oxide electrolysis to break off some of those Os and store them, while returning the leftover carbon monoxide to the ...