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Japan is sending a rover to Mars's moon Phobos in 2024

The Martian Moons eXploration mission is slated to launch for Phobos in September 2024 – once it gets there, it will drop off a rover, pick up some samples and head home

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Europa Clipper will launch to Jupiter in 2024 to explore its icy moon

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Europa Clipper Reaction Wheel installations Requester: Gretchen Mccartney Photographer: Gregory M. Waigand Date: 2022-10-14 Photolab order: 106955-11.00.00.A04

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Space flight may increase erectile dysfunction among astronauts

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20 July 1969. Neil Armstrong?s photos of Buzz Aldrin?s first steps on the Moon. This was what it all boiled down to in the end, even after the unprecedented feats of rocketry and all the extraordinary technical innovation which had safely flown two astronauts to a destination a quarter of a million miles from home: the basic human act of walking.

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Walking on the moon: candid photos from astronaut Tim Peake’s new book

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Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

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Searching for life on Mars isn’t worth the risk to Earth

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Super-heatproof computer memory survives temperatures over 500°C

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Why it's a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon

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Why it's a big deal that India beat Russia in the new race to the moon

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Screengrab from India's Chandrayaan-3 moon landing

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has landed near the moon’s south pole

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Artist's depiction of India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission

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Chandrayaan-3 livestream: Watch India’s attempted moon landing

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The Luna 25 mission ahead of launch

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Russia chases former Soviet glory with Luna 25 moon mission

Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years is designed to land near the moon’s south pole and is being viewed as an attempt to show that the country can still compete in the international space industry

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India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moon's water-rich south pole

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We must address a key obstacle to our new age of space exploration

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We must address a key obstacle to our new age of space exploration

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Planned moon landings could pelt orbiting spacecraft with dusty debris

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Ariane 5 VA 260 with the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

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JUICE livestream: Watch the launch of ESA’s mission to Jupiter’s moons

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