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Space.com

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) may have finally reached the end of its operations after eight years spent orbiting the Red Planet. Ground stations operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have lost communication with the spacecraft …

Space.com

Ingenuity is flying well into an extended mission. The drone is the first ever to fly above Mars and was originally rated for five flights. Now it’s about to break that mark by sevenfold.

Space.com

The hardware that will fly SpaceX’s next astronaut mission for NASA is poised and ready for liftoff. The Crew-5 mission is scheduled to launch at noon EDT (1600 GMT) on Wednesday (Oct. 5) from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, …

Space.com

SpaceX will launch 52 more Starlink internet satellites to orbit tonight (Oct. 3), and you can watch the liftoff live. The Starlink satellites are scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight at …

Livescience.com

Scientists discovered the remains of the newly identified, extinct species at the Rongxi Formation, a renowned fossil site in Guizhou province, in southern China. The researchers named the species Fanjingshania renovata, after a nearby mountain known as …

Phys.Org

New Nobel laureate Svante Paabo is considered the father of both paleogenetics and paleogenomics, which aims to reconstruct the genetic information of long extinct human relatives. But the prize may have led some to wonder why a …

Forbes

Before it does you can watch it rise later each day, turning from an afternoon Moon to an up-all-night orb. You can also watch it pass the giant planets and, if you’re lucky, glimpse the tiny planet Mercury at the weekend.

Science News

New experiments seem to bolster a recently retracted claim of room-temperature superconductivity in a blend of hydrogen, sulfur and a bit of carbon squeezed to enormous pressures in a diamond anvil like this one.

Spaceflight Now

NASA said Friday that officials have ruled out launching the agency’s first giant Space Launch System moon rocket and Orion spacecraft before mid-November, following the rocket’s return to the hangar at Kennedy Space Center for safekeeping from …

CNET

NASA’s plucky Ingenuity helicopter rose off the Martian ground on Sept. 24 for a short repositioning flight, and it looks like it wasn’t alone. Navigation images from the flight appear to show a light-colored, flowing object stuck to the chopper for at …