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By Jonathan Amos The company behind America’s latest mission to soft-land on the Moon is battling to save the project. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic says its Peregrine spacecraft has a faulty propulsion system that’s lost “critical” amounts of fuel. The issue has already made it difficult for the craft to point its solar panels at the Sun to generate electricity and may ...

An artist’s impression of the robot rover, which is designed to search for life on Mars By: Jonathan Amos A scientific instrument built in Wales will lead the search for life on Mars at the end of this decade. Enfys, meaning “rainbow” in Welsh, is an infrared spectrometer and will be assembled at Aberystwyth University.  It will be fitted to ...

Watch: Why asteroid Bennu samples are so important… in 83 seconds By Jonathan Amos, science correspondent  in Dugway, Utah Dusty samples from the “most dangerous known rock in the Solar System” have been brought to Earth. The American space agency Nasa landed the materials in a capsule that came down in the West Desert of Utah state. The samples had ...