Japan space probe skims asteroid in test for planetary defense

A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday in a test mission for technology that could help ...

NASA's Mars MAVEN probe is dead

NASA has officially ended the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, six months after it lost contact with the probe. MAVEN was the agency's first program dedicat ...
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Scientists probe cosmic visitor from deep space, come up empty in search for alien life

Last summer, a NASA-funded asteroid impact warning system detected a mysterious object speeding through the solar system. Scientists determined the object had entered the solar system from deep space, ...

NASA declares end of mission for long-lasting Mars orbiter

NASA officials said the $582 million MAVEN orbiter could not be recovered after a problem on the far side of Mars late last year, and that its extraordinarily successful mission was at an end.
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NASA’s next-generation space processor could let Mars rovers and deep-space probes make decisions in real time without waiting for commands from Earth

Every spacecraft NASA has sent beyond low-Earth orbit over the past two decades has relied on some version of the same brain: the RAD750, a radiation-hardened processor built by BAE Systems that runs ...