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NASA Approves Construction of Drone for Flight on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com NASA's Dragonfly: A Journey to Titan's Mysterious Surface Approximately 800 million miles (1.2 billion kilometers) from Earth lies...

Asteroid Flyby Delivers Peanut-Shaped Surprise for Lucy

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Successfully Encounters Asteroid Donaldjohanson The second stop on NASA's ambitious Lucy mission brought scientists face-to-face...

PUNCH Emerges into the Spotlight

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com The PUNCH mission, which stands for the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, successfully launched on...

Exploring Methods of Studying Our Planet

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com Astronomy magazine typically explores the frontiers of space through observatories positioned far above our planet. However, an...

Martian Moon Captured on Film During Hera Flyby

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com Hera Mission Captures Deimos During Mars Flyby The enigmatic Martian moon Deimos was photographed as the European Space...

Radioisotope Generators: The ‘Nuclear Batteries’ Fuelling Distant Spacecraft

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com Powering spacecraft in the vastness of space presents unique challenges, despite the Sun's powerful energy felt on...

The Importance of Magnetometers on Spacecraft: Why They’re Essential for Exploration

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com The fascination with space imagery captured by probes such as those orbiting Jupiter or Saturn often overshadows...

Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 Moon Lander Found Lifeless in a Crater

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com Setbacks in Lunar Exploration as Intuitive Machines' Athena Lander Falls Short Intuitive Machines has announced the conclusion of...

IM-2 Arrives on the Moon, but Its Status Remains Unclear

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Lunar Mission: A New Chapter in Space Exploration Following a challenging prior lunar mission, Intuitive...

The Dawn of a New Era in Lunar Exploration

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com Lunar Exploration: A New Era of Discovery As a conceptual vision takes shape, ispace's lunar lander and exploration...

NASA Set to Launch PUNCH to Explore the Sun’s Impact on Space

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com PUNCH, or the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, is an ambitious mission featuring a quartet...

SPHEREx Set to Launch This Week for a Cosmic Census

Photo credit: www.astronomy.com NASA is set to launch its infrared space telescope, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe,...