Interplanetary space probes used to be the domain of giant governments, or conglomerates of smaller governments who couldn’t hope to field a space program on their own. Any attempt by one European ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After five years orbiting the Red Planet — and sending 10 terabytes of data back to Earth — the UAE is extending its Mars probe ...

NASA’s InSight lander arrived on Mars to drill five meters underground and listen to the planet’s internal activity. Instead, its self-hammering probe stalled just inches below the surface — defeated ...

On18, China's legislature nearly unanimously endorsed a change to the Constitution formally removing term limits.

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On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...

A Long March 2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-21 spacecraft blasts off in Gansu province, China, in October 2025 (Photo: ...

We’re going back to the moon. Well, at least that’s the hope.

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More than a year before his recent standoff with the Pentagon, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, published a 15,000-word manifesto describing a glorious AI future. Its title, “Machines ...

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation plans to take up legislation on March ​4 that would amend a ...

NASA astronaut requirements 2026: Becoming a NASA astronaut is a challenging journey. Applicants need specific degrees and experience. Training lasts two years, covering survival, robotics, and flying ...