
Spacecraft bound for Mercury begins 'tricky' arrival
Spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes begins high-risk approach to Mercury after 8-year journey, with complex trajectory and separation from transfer module.
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Spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes begins high-risk approach to Mercury after 8-year journey, with complex trajectory and separation from transfer module.

Security researchers at Cycode have disclosed a chain of flaws in AIT-GUI, the browser-based operator console for NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, that allow an unauthenticated attacker to issue arbitrary commands to the software's spacecraft and instrumen…

The Korea Aerospace Research Institute shared the first photographs captured by its lunar orbiter, showing signs of a recent impact on the moon's surface caused by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the moon on Wednesday, but no one managed to capture images or video of the impact. Astronomers detected a stream of sodium and lithium that appeared a few minutes after the predicted time of the collision, indicating the impact occur…

Australian authorities have solved the mystery of the 'silver spheres' that washed up on a beach in Queensland. The spheres, which sparked concerns about their safety, have been identified as fragments of a foreign spacecraft that re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.