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On July 3, 1998, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Nozomi spacecraft on a mission to Mars. This would be the country's first probe to go to another planet.

By studying how flat Earthers talk about their beliefs, we can learn how they make their arguments engaging to their audience, and in turn, learn what makes disinformation spread online.

The Perseverance team says the rover can still take key weather measurements after pebbles struck a wind sensor amid strong Red Planet gusts.

Earth will be the farthest from the sun on Monday (July 4) as it reaches aphelion at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT).

The James Webb Space Telescope's powerful infrared instruments will be trained on three types of comets, potentially providing insight into the solar system's early life.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket made it back to its processing facility today (July 2), completing the 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) trek from the launch pad in a little over 10 hours.

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The effect of Roe v. Wade in space, rocket launches will damage ozone, and NASA's solar forecast might be wrong.

It's clear that space weather can cause blackouts, but scientists are still working to predict extreme events and forecast their potentially devastating effects.

A stubborn solar array on the NASA Lucy mission might yield enough to allow the mission to continue its asteroid-hunting mandate with few issues, NASA reports.

For its last international deployment, the aircraft returns to Christchurch for a seventh and final time.

One of the instrument's early programs includes performing spectroscopy on stellar nursery NGC 133 to spot the small, dark celestial bodies.

Virgin Orbit just aced its fourth mission in a row, launching seven small satellites in the company's first-ever night flight.

A missile-warning satellite and another spacecraft are on their way to orbit to help the U.S. military get better at tracking fast-moving threats.

China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.

Marvel Comics releases its long-awaited "Predator" series from Ed Brisson and Kev Walker.

NASA's little CAPSTONE cubesat is making good progress on its long journey to the moon.

China has launched another in its series of Gaofen Earth observation satellites as it continues building out its space infrastructure.

A new study suggests that high-impact exercise could help astronauts limit bone loss while in space.

A hot, dry start to summer has spurred a record number of wildfires in southern Alaska, and weather satellites are tracking the development of the blazes from space.