Cuts likely for one of NASA's next big space-based telescopes
29 November 2017
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is crippled by rising costs. To get it off the ground, the agency may have to alter its scientific mission
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Private mission may get us back to Enceladus sooner than NASA
22 November 2017
Russian billionaire Yuri Milner is considering privately funding a mission to Enceladus, one of the prime places to search for life in our solar system
Dawn spacecraft approved to spend another year studying Ceres
25 October 2017
NASA has extended the mission of the Dawn probe around the icy dwarf planet Ceres. It will dip toward Ceres's surface and study its tenuous atmosphere
Cassini ends its 20-year mission by slamming into Saturn
20 September 2017
To avoid contaminating Saturn's two icy moons – now key targets in the hunt for life – Cassini was sent plummeting into the planet as its fuel ran out
Steampunk rover design eliminates electronics to survive Venus
30 August 2017
The fragile electronics on Mars rovers could not withstand the hellish atmosphere on Venus. A new rover design takes inspiration from mechanical computers of the past
Google-sponsored private moon race delayed for the fourth time
23 August 2017
Competitors in the Google Lunar X Prize now have until 31 March 2018 to land a spacecraft on the moon
US witnesses best solar eclipse in decades
23 August 2017
People from Oregon to South Carolina were able to see a total solar eclipse, while President Donald Trump looked directly at a partial eclipse
New Zealand joins the space race with Electron rocket launch
31 May 2017
The nation launched its first rocket on 24 May, making it the 11th country worldwide with space launch capabilities
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24 May 2017
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No crew planned for NASA's first Space Launch System mission
17 May 2017
The first launch of SLS will go forward without astronauts aboard, despite a White House request that NASA add crew to a planned 2019 mission
