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NASA and the Japanese Space Agency JAXA are forging ahead with plans to prolong the operation of an instrument aboard the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), despite encountering an issue affecting one of its instruments.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars continues to make history, having now completed its 68th flight over the weekend where it covered an impressive horizontal distance of 828 meters (2,310 feet). This marks the farthest journey the Mars Helicopter has undertaken since its 25th flight.
NASA engineers are working to address a technical issue on Voyager 1, one of the agency's iconic deep space probes, as it encounters communication challenges between its onboard computers.
An enormous dark hole has appeared on the surface of the sun, spewing powerful streams of unusually fast radiation, identified as solar wind, directly toward Earth.
NASA's Psyche spacecraft has marked a significant milestone on its journey to explore the asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupite by turning on its twin cameras, and capturing the spacecraft's "first light" images.
NASA iconic space observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope has suspended science operations and is in safe mode due to a problem with one of its three operational gyroscopes.
In a groundbreaking announcement, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the presence of carbon-bearing molecules, including methane and carbon dioxide, on the exoplanet K2-18b just a 120 light years away.
In a groundbreaking development for biotechnology applications and for the first time in history, a human body part has been successfully 3D-printing using human tissue in microgravity.
Russia's lunar exploration mission Luna-25, has ended in failure after the spacecraft crashed into the moon's surface; the announcement was made by Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, through a statement on their Telegram on the morning of August 20.
Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft has encountered an "emergency situation" during a critical maneuver in Lunar orbit.
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