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New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the Kuiper Belt to examine ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region beyond the orbit of Neptune.
It's 9:30 a.m., and I'm in a crowded auditorium at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Suddenly I hear, "Go, Webb, go!" and look up to see a group of people on the stage, some holding sparkly golden pom-poms, others cardboard hexagons covered in gold foil.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter made history in 2021 when it conducted the first flight of a powered aircraft on another world. On which other planet (other than Earth) has an unpowered aircraft made a successful flight?
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Join us at The British Library, Saturday 16 July! The countdown is on for a fantastic line-up of children's authors to come together at The British Library, live on stage, Hear from Sharna Jackson, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Emma Carroll, Rob Biddulph, Phil Earle and more. Book now.
Sandy or (silicate-rich) clouds were confirmed in bizarre, gassy objects known as brown dwarfs, which are between the size of a planet and a star. Since these oddball objects have no solid surface, how the sand grains got so high in their planets' atmospheres was a mystery to scientists, despite suspicions of observed silicates for at least the past decade(opens in new tab).
A robotic SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to lift off atop a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at 8:44 p.m. EDT (0044 GMT on July 15) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
We've cast our eye over the market for the best camera phones and rounded up the very best for general photography, including Night Mode and low-light imaging.
Inside All About Space issue 132, on sale now, explore NASA's biggest mission in over 50 years: Artemis. The mission aims to put boots back on the moon and bring us one step closer to Mars.