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Six of Ingenuity's successors could be exploring Mars in 4 years
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Stuck astronaut Butch Wilmore retires from NASA less than 5 months after extended spaceflight
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First asteroid sightings push Hera's camera to the limit
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An interstellar mission to a black hole? Astrophysicist thinks it's possible
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Houston, we have a (sinus) problem: Research examines astronaut nasal and sinus problems in outer space
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SpaceX scrubs Thursday attempt, will aim for Friday to send up more Amazon satellites
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SpaceX agrees to take Italian experiments to Mars
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Week in images: 04-08 August 2025
Week in images: 04-08 August 2025
Discover our week through the lens
Human minds, robotic hands
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Last July, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This was the final session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a joint initiative between ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to investigate how astronauts can remotely control robotic teams.
This latest session took place at the DLR site in Oberpfaffenhofen and introduced new levels of autonomy, decision-making and realism, bringing Europe one step closer to seamless human-robot collaboration in space exploration.
Hubble sizes up rare interstellar comet
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A team of astronomers has taken the sharpest-ever picture of the unexpected interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, using the crisp vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
ESA's Planetary Defence Office responded promptly to the discovery of the comet, and has been tracking it since the beginning of July.
Now, Hubble's observations from space are allowing astronomers to more accurately estimate the size of the comet’s solid icy nucleus. The upper limit on the diameter of the nucleus is 5.6 km, but it could be as small as 320 m across, researchers report.
Though the Hubble images put tighter constraints on the nucleus size