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Touchdown: NASA’s Perseverance rover ready to search for life on Mars

  by Issam Ahmed and Lucie Aubourg Agence France Presse After seven months in space, NASA's Perseverance rover survived a…

Perseverance rover lands on Mars this week

  by Lucie AUBOURG Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- After a seven-month journey, NASA's Perseverance rover prepares…

NASA wants to fly a helicopter on Mars for the first time

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- More than a century after the first powered flight on Earth, NASA intends to prove…

NASA buying Moon dust for $1

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The US space agency NASA awarded contracts to four companies on Thursday to collect lunar…

SpaceX launches four astronauts to ISS

by Issam Ahmed and Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Four astronauts were successfully launched on the SpaceX Crew…

NASA probe Osiris-Rex ‘boops’ asteroid Bennu in historic mission

by Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on…

Nokia and NASA to install 4G on the Moon

HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) --  With competition among Earth's telecoms providers as fierce as ever, equipment maker Nokia announced its expansion…

ISS moves to avoid space debris

  WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Astronauts on the International Space Station carried out an "avoidance maneuver" Tuesday to ensure…

Gather Moon rocks for us, NASA urges private companies

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- NASA on Thursday announced it was in the market for Moon rocks, and wants to…

Climate change fuels sharp increase in glacier lakes

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The volume of lakes formed as glaciers worldwide melt due to…

SpaceX completes test flight of Mars rocket prototype

HOUSTON, United States (AFP) -- SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest…

Glaciers could have sculpted Mars valleys: study

PARIS, France (AFP) — The question of whether ancient life could have existed on Mars centres on the water that once…

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