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Space.com

This tube is a backup depot, however; Perseverance collects twin samples at each location and its mission calls for it to do the delivery itself, using the set of caches inside the rover. But if necessary, the helicopters could be called upon to pick up …

Space.com

Astronomers have observed a massive black hole as it consumes the remains of a star that wandered too close, witnessing the formation of a hot gas halo in unprecedented detail. As the black hole, which sits at the heart of a galaxy located 250 million …

Space.com

NASA has been helping Russia’s federal space agency Roscosmos with the leak investigation, and not just because both agencies are major ISS partners. This Soyuz brought NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and two cosmonauts to the orbiting lab in September and is …

Spaceflight Now

Dust-laden solar panels and darker Martian skies have finally sealed the fate of NASA’s InSight mission, the agency announced Wednesday, after the intrepid lander delivered its final message from Mars at the end of its history-making mission to reveal …

Space.com

NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars. Curiosity’s discovery of manganese oxides in Martian rocks led researchers to believe that the planet’s atmosphere used to be rich in oxygen. (Image credit …

Space.com

Santa Claus and his reindeer aren’t the only ones making an appearance in the skies this week. If you missed the Geminid meteor shower last week, you have one more chance to spot …

CNN

NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio are set to install a solar array outside the floating laboratory. Rubio will serve as extravehicular crew member 1 and will wear a suit with red stripes, while Cassada will wear an unmarked white suit as …

Phys.Org

Pranay Mishra reached down to the floor of his workplace and scooped a handful of what might be the closest thing on Earth to the feel of Martian soil. “This is actually unprocessed garnet,” he said, sifting the gray granules in his palm.

The New York Times

After four years of making important discoveries about the interior of the red planet, the stationary lander lost power because of Martian dust covering its solar panels. Send any friend …

Space.com

If wind power could prove useful on the Red Planet, it might play important roles that other forms of power do not.