Carina Nebula — star formation region photographed by JWST

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analysisNovember 3, 2025

Japan's SLIM Mission: The 'Moon Sniper' That Landed Within 100 Meters of Its Target

The Sniper That Hit Its Mark -- Then Flipped Over On January 19, 2024, at 12:20 AM Japan Standard Time (January 20 local time), Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon -- known as SLIM -- touched…

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NASA's Psyche spacecraft with its large solar arrays, designed to explore a metal-rich asteroid

analysisNovember 3, 2025

NASA's Psyche Mission: Visiting a World Made of Metal

Somewhere between Mars and Jupiter, drifting quietly in the asteroid belt, there is an object unlike anything we have ever visited. It is not made of rock and ice like most asteroids. It is not a rubb…

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newsOctober 31, 2025

Axiom Space: Building the World's First Commercial Space Station

The International Space Station has been humanity's outpost in low Earth orbit for over 25 years. It is an engineering marvel, a diplomatic achievement, and a scientific laboratory unlike anything els…

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opinionOctober 27, 2025

Planetary Protection: Why We Sterilize Spacecraft Before Visiting Other Worlds

Somewhere inside a pristine cleanroom at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a team of engineers in head-to-toe bunny suits is painstakingly wiping down every surface of a spacecraft with isopropyl alco…

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newsOctober 20, 2025

India's Space Startup Boom: The New Generation After ISRO

Beyond the Giant's Shadow For decades, India's space story had a single protagonist: the Indian Space Research Organisation. ISRO built satellites on shoestring budgets, launched Mars orbiters for les…

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An ISRO rocket launching from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India

newsOctober 20, 2025

भारत का अंतरिक्ष स्टार्टअप बूम: ISRO के बाद की नई पीढ़ी

दिग्गज की छाया से बाहर दशकों तक, भारत की अंतरिक्ष कहानी का एक ही नायक था: भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन। ISRO ने बेहद कम बजट पर उपग्रह बनाए, हॉलीवुड फ़िल्म की लागत से कम में मंगल कक्षित्र भेजा, और कि…

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The crew of Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-51L in their official NASA portrait

analysisOctober 15, 2025

Challenger and Columbia: Tragedies That Made Space Safer

Space exploration is not safe. It has never been safe. But there is a difference between accepting inherent risk and failing to act on known dangers. The losses of Space Shuttle Challenger on January…

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newsOctober 15, 2025

Starlink Direct-to-Cell: Ending Dead Zones from Space

There are roughly 500,000 square miles of the United States where your cell phone simply does not work. No signal. No bars. No way to call for help if your car breaks down on a remote highway, no way…

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opinionOctober 9, 2025

Space Debris: Who's Responsible When Satellites Collide?

On February 10, 2009, something happened in low Earth orbit that had never happened before: two intact satellites slammed into each other at roughly 11.7 kilometers per second. The collision between I…

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newsOctober 6, 2025

Asteroid Mining: Science Fiction Becoming Business Reality

For decades, asteroid mining lived in the same mental category as warp drives and lightsabers: fun to think about, permanently out of reach. That is changing, and the shift is driven not by science fi…

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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin standing on the lunar surface during the Apollo 11 mission

analysisOctober 1, 2025

Apollo 11: The Complete Story of Humanity's Greatest Achievement

On July 20, 1969, two human beings stepped onto the surface of another world for the first time in history. The Apollo 11 mission was not just a triumph of engineering or national ambition -- it was t…

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Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface during the historic Apollo 11 mission

analysisOctober 1, 2025

Apollo 11: मानवता की सबसे महान उपलब्धि की संपूर्ण कहानी

20 जुलाई, 1969 को, इतिहास में पहली बार दो इंसानों ने किसी अन्य दुनिया की सतह पर कदम रखा। Apollo 11 मिशन केवल इंजीनियरिंग या राष्ट्रीय महत्वाकांक्षा की विजय नहीं थी -- यह वह क्षण था जब हमारी प्रजाति ने…

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