space exploration

Analysis: Why trash in space is a major problem with no clear fix

By Chris Impey, The Conversation

Treaties meant to ensure sustainability in space don’t currently regulate private companies, and not every country has signed on to an agreement for sustainable space exploration.

News Wrap: Biden tours aftermath of Hurricane Idalia in Florida

In our news wrap Saturday, President Biden and the first lady surveyed the damage from Hurricane Idalia in Florida, India launched a spacecraft to study the sun’s atmosphere, politician and diplomat Bill Richardson, who negotiated the release of several Americans…

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After successful moon landing, India launches a spacecraft to study the sun

By Ashok Sharma, Aijaz Hussain, Associated Press

India launched its first space mission to study the sun on Saturday, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south polar region of the moon.

WATCH: NASA reviews plan to recover Bennu asteroid sample via OSIRIS-REx

By Bella Isaacs-Thomas

NASA researchers on Wednesday will share how they plan to retrieve rock samples plucked from the surface of an ancient asteroid next month.

The significance of India’s successful landing on the moon’s south pole

By Amna Nawaz, Miles O'Brien, Mary Fecteau

It was a historic day for India as it became the fourth country to land on the moon. It comes after a failed attempt in 2019 and just days behind a failed Russian lunar landing. Prime Minister Modi watched alongside…

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India becomes only the 4th country to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon

By Ashok Sharma, Associated Press

India made history by becoming the first country to touch down near the little-explored south pole region.

Russia’s first lunar mission in decades ends with spacecraft crash on the moon

By Associated Press

Roscosmos said it lost contact with the Luna-25 on Saturday after the spacecraft ran into difficulties and reported an “abnormal situation.” The Luna-25 was in a race with an Indian spacecraft to be the first to reach the moon's south…

What a NASA mission to study a metallic asteroid may teach us about Earth’s core

By Jim Bell, The Conversation

Liftoff to the distant asteroid Psyche is scheduled for Oct. 5, 2023 – the beginning of a six-year journey to one of the most unusual objects in the solar system.

Russia launches its first mission to the moon in almost 50 years

By Jim Heintz, Emma Burrows, Associated Press

A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on the lunar south pole before a spacecraft from India gets there.

European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope takes off to seek out the universe’s darkest secrets

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

SpaceX launched the European Space Agency’s Euclid observatory toward its ultimate destination 1 million miles away, the James Webb Space Telescope’s neighborhood.