Jupiter-bound probe snaps a photo of earth

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

It’s difficult to fully grasp the enormity and extremity of Jupiter. The planet – a striped behemoth of swirling gas with around 100 moons, one of which is larger than Mercury – dominates the Solar Sy

The race is on to extract helium-3 from the lunar surface —and Interlune is first at the launchpad, pursuing a resource that could power industries for decades

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