NASA Releases Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Passing by Mars

With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an object that came from beyond our solar system.

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Blue Origin to Launch NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars: How to Watch

This will be the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’ space company and will include a key test of whether it can land a booster stage for later reuse.

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Blue Origin Launches NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars: How to Watch

This will be the second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’s space company and will include a key test of whether it can land a booster stage for later reuse.

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NASA Picks 10 New Astronauts as Focus Shifts to the Moon and Mars

The 10 astronaut candidates, six of them women, will begin two years of training before becoming eligible for missions to low-Earth orbit and perhaps one day to the moon and Mars.

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U.S. Is Losing Race to Return to Moon, Critics Say, Pointing at SpaceX

The company’s Starship rocket, which has suffered a series of recent test explosions, is still years away from being ready for the mission, former NASA executives say.

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Was There Life on Mars? A Rock Found by NASA Keeps Getting More Interesting.

NASA is still not saying it has found fossils of Martian microbes, but analysis of a rock collected by the Perseverance rover raises that possibility.

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Quakes on Mars Reveal New Features of the Planet’s Interior

Using data from NASA’s retired InSight lander, two separate teams of researchers found evidence of a sluggish Martian mantle and a solid inner core.

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Sept. 29: Blue Origin could launch twin NASA satellites to Mars.

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If Elon Musk and Donald Trump Make Up, Don’t Be Surprised

For all the insults that Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump traded on Thursday, don’t be surprised if they make up again days from now. In the meantime, they both benefit.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Could Make Billions If Trump’s Budget Proposal Is Approved

SpaceX, already one of the biggest NASA and Pentagon contractors, could win billions of dollars in new contracts if President Trump’s budget proposal is approved by Congress.

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