Next year’s mission will be the first of three, and will deliver Dubai’s first lunar rover and a Japanese moon robot to the surface of the moon.

The Webb Space Telescope reaches its new home, remembering our fallen heroes, and testing a VIPER in the sand … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA!



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The Curiosity Mars rover has captured photos suggesting that Aeolis Mons, unofficially known as Mount Sharp, was created by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years, NASA says.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will sport a rock-vaporizing laser gun

NASA gave the company a contract worth up to 84.5 million dollars to help develop the propulsion system that will be used to power the Mars Ascent Vehicle. <br/>

China’s space administration, the CNSA, currently has a rover exploring the far side of the moon as part of its Chang’e 4 mission. It is also preparing to launch the Chang’e 5 mission this year to collect lunar samples and bring the...

On February 18, 2021, NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover completed its 300 million mile journey and landed safely on the Red Planet. Here’s what it heard. This special episode of NASA’s Curious Universe features the first-ever raw recorded...

ESA's (The European Space Agency) ExoMars rover is headed to the red planet in 2020, on a mission to search for signs of past or present life. One of its primary tools in this endeavor is MOMA, the Mars Organic...

China's lunar probe has made history as the first spacecraft to touch down on the far side of the moon.

The Chinese National Space Administration, or CNSA, says its Tianwen-1 orbiter will release its Zhurong Mars rover on 17 May. The orbiter arrived in Mars orbit on 24 February, carrying with it the rover and its landing cradle.

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NASA’s upcoming Mars Perseverance rover, scheduled to launch in July, is bringing a set of technologies to explore the Red Planet in new ways. Mitch Schulte of NASA Headquarters discusses this mission and the effort to explore whether...

This guided tour of Mars' Jezero Crater from NASA’s Perseverance rover provides a glimpse of the Martian landscape from the rover's highest vantage point yet in the “Séítah” region.



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China says that it has successfully landed a craft carrying a robotic rover on the surface of the moon. On Saturday afternoon (GMT), a landing module touched down on the moon's surface using thrusters, marking an important step for...

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Japan is set to launch a robotic mission to the Martian system in 2024. <br/>

NASA plans to send a robotic rover to search for water ice at the moon’s South Pole in 2022. <br/>

NASA has unveiled designs for a medium-sized lunar lander that would be able to carry payloads that weigh up to 300 kilograms to the moon’s polar regions. <br/>

The EU and Russia are collaborating on a mission to Mars to try and answer the question of whether life has ever existed on the Red Planet. <br/>

Beijing's mission to the unexplored dark side of the moon got underway over the weekend.

NASA successfully launched the 2020 Perseverance mission from Florida’s Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:50 a.m. on July 29.

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NASA Scientist Michelle Thaller discusses anticipated discoveries and exciting missions planned during this decade.

Today we’ll learn space vocabulary for IELTS Writing Task 2 and Speaking Part 3.

A team at the University of Sydney developed a robotic herder to move cows from the pasture to the dairy. In a recent trial, researchers found that the cows readily accepted the presence of the herding robot. Named Rover by its creators,...