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Mars has 'footprints'? Nasa rover spots strange pits unlike anything seen before

Michelle Minitti, deputy principal investigator for Nasa's Mars Hand Lens Imager programme, told the BBC the formations were unlike features previously seen by the rover. "After Curiosity's 14 years on the surface, Mars continues to surprise. Both of our work…

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty declares the moon ‘the province of all mankind’ and bans any nation from owning it — yet it created no court, no police and no referee anywhere off Earth to enforce the rule

Signed in 1967 by the United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom, the Outer Space Treaty bans any nation from owning the Moon — but created no court, police force or referee to enforce the rule. Six decades later, that gap is the central problem in space …

NASA launches plan to set up permanent base on moon

Bellatrix readying ultra-low orbit satellites

The Bengaluru-based company is targeting launches in 2027 or 2028 and is positioning the project as a potential breakthrough in very low Earth orbit (VLEO) satellite operations, an area that remains largely unexplored globally because of the extreme atmospher…