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NASA spacecraft breaks record for coming closest to Sun

TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which launched earlier this year, has set a new record for…

Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study

by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold…

Mercury mission to explore origin of Solar System

by Laurence COUSTAL Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Is Mercury's core liquid or solid, and why -- on…

Russia probes ISS rocket failure

  by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV in Baikonur with Theo MERZ in Moscow Agence France Presse BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AFP) -- Russian investigators…

Japan space tourist says moon training ‘shouldn’t be too hard’

TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Billionaire Japanese tycoon and future space tourist Yusaku Maezawa's training to go the moon should not…

Europe’s Ariane 5 rocket blasts off for 100th time

PARIS, France (AFP) -- A European-made rocket has blasted off from French Guiana for the 100th time, in a symbolic…

NASA counts down to launch of laser study of ice sheets

  by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- NASA counted down Saturday to the launch of…

NASA space lasers to reveal new depths of planet’s ice loss

by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- NASA is poised to launch Saturday its most advanced…

SpaceX announces new plan to send tourist around Moon

  LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- SpaceX on Thursday announced a new plan to launch a tourist around the…

For first time in decades, astronaut quits NASA training

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- For the first time in five decades, a NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training,…

NASA launches historic probe to ‘touch Sun’

  by Kerry Sheridan Agence France Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) -- NASA on Sunday launched a $1.5 billion spacecraft…

NASA counts down to launch of first spacecraft to ‘touch Sun’

by Kerry Sheridan Agence France-Presse TAMPA, United States (AFP) - NASA counted down Friday to the launch of a $1.5…

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