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The conference will be held on May 28 and May 29 in Washington, D.C., with panels available via live webcast online.
This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you should be looking up.
Though little is known about Deimos, another European spacecraft recently captured unprecedented views of the moon's far side. The Hera mission, which will study the asteroid NASA intentionally crashed into three years ago, flew by the Red Planet on March 12, just 11 days after the rover looked up.
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Space.com on MSNJapan tests its Mars moon sample-return probe ahead of 2026 launch (photo)Japan is putting its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft through a series of tests ahead of its launch to Mars next year.MMX is a complex mission to collect samples from the moon Phobos and deliver them to Earth to solve the riddle of the origin of the tiny Martian satellite.
Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the launch pad.
A ghostly Martian moonrise, starlit skies, and a mission chasing life’s traces—Perseverance captures more than just images.
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Astronomy on MSNThe Sky Today on Sunday, May 25: Mars joins the Sickle of LeoThe Sickle is a famous asterism in Leo, which now also hosts Mars in the evening sky. Mars has now crossed the border from Cancer into Leo, standing in the far western regions of the Lion’s domain. The Red Planet is visible after sunset this evening, slowly sinking in the west and setting around 1 A.M. local daylight time.
Titan is a strange world, at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and shrouded in a jaundiced smog. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen.