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Media playback is not supported on your device Media captionHope probe successfully launched from a spaceport in Japan The UAE’s first historic mission to Mars is underway, after a successful takeoff in Japan. The Hope probe was launched on an H2-A rocket from the Tanegashima spaceport, and is now on …

On July 20, 1969, the pair successfully touched the Eagle lunar lander on the Moon’s surface, after a tense descent that forced Armstrong to take manual control to avoid landing in a crater and the director of the crew, Deke Slayton, asked “where the hell” did they land? Six hours …

Little humans constantly tug on and tug on the masks. Children don’t just stop there. They let the tops fall under their noses, and sometimes they even throw things under their mouths just because they can. Despite all of these child protests in countries where facial coatings are new to …

Figure 1. Impact fusion gap and surrounding context. Credit: CNSA, CLEP and AIR The unusual glowing dark greenish-green substance in a crater on the other side of the moon has sparked widespread interest after its discovery by the Chang’e-4 rover in July 2019. A research team led by Prof. DI …

The spiral galaxy NGC 4217 has a huge magnetic field that is shown here as green lines. Data for this visualization was recorded with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope from the National Science Foundation. The image of the galaxy shown from the side is taken …