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Mars glaciers are purer and more uniform than previously thought
On the slopes of Martian mountains and craters clings what appears to be flowing honey, coated in dust and frozen in time. In reality, these features are incredibly slow-moving glaciers, and their contents were once thought to be mostly rock enveloped in some ice.
Work over the last 20 years has demonstrated that at least some of these glaciers are mostly pure ice with only a thin cover of NASA says it will lose about 20 percent of its workforce
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European Vega C rocket ferries satellites into orbit
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Vega-C VV27
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Launch of Vega-C VV27 How to watch two meteor showers peak together in late July
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Week in images: 21-25 July 2025
Week in images: 21-25 July 2025
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The future of construction on Earth is extraterrestrial
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Space Force general to oversee U.S. 'Golden Dome' missile shield
The U.S. Senate has approved Gen. Mike Guetlein to oversee President Donald Trump's national missile defense system, known as the Golden Dome.
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that Guetlein had cleared the final hurdle to leading the Office of Golden Dome for America, which will work with industry, higher education, national labs and other government agencies to develop the high-tech miss Viasat unveils IoT Nano service for global low-power connectivity
Viasat has introduced IoT Nano, a new satellite-powered connectivity service aimed at providing cost-effective, low-power Internet of Things (IoT) messaging in remote and hard-to-reach areas worldwide. The service, developed in partnership with ORBCOMM, enables two-way communication for monitoring and managing mobile and fixed assets across industries such as agriculture, mining, transport, and Russian rocket puts Iran satellite into space: Iran media
A Russian rocket put an Iranian communications satellite into space on Friday, Iranian state media reported, the latest achievement for an aerospace programme that has long concerned Western governments.
"The Nahid-2 communications satellite was launched from Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome using a Soyuz rocket," state television said.
Weighing 110 kilograms (over 240 pounds), the satellit