Spacecraft buzzes Mercury’s north pole and beams back stunning photos
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...
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SpaceX: Starship to launch fake satellites on seventh test flight
SpaceX’s most ambitious Starship flight yet will see reused hardware, the deployment of 10 fake satellites and another ...
JAXA's first wooden satellite deploys from space station
In December 2024, five CubeSats deployed into Earth's orbit from the International Space Station. Among them was LignoSat, a ...
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Astronaut Set to Patch NASA’s X-ray Telescope Aboard Space Station
NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray ...
Letters to the Editor: So, why do we have an International Space Station anyway?
Two U.S. astronauts have been stuck on the International Space Station for months. A reader wonders what purpose that ...
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NASA’s Eau de Space—the Scent of Outer Space in a Bottle
NASA's fragrance "Eau de Space," which captures the scent of space itself, is now available to the public for purchase.
NASA astronaut on the ISS shares bird's-eye view of Northern Lights
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared his incredible view of the Northern Lights from the International Space Station, as ...
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Earth’s magnetic field has a dent, and NASA is watching closely
NASA monitors the South Atlantic Anomaly, a growing magnetic field disturbance affecting satellites and spacecraft.
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How Artemis will land humans on the Moon
In the first decades of the 21st century, NASA’s Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon, thanks to international partnerships.
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Total Eclipse, Meteors And Space Probes — A Lot’s Going On Over Wyoming In 2025
From a total lunar eclipse to meteor showers to space probes, 2025 will be stellar for celestial viewing. Those and more will ...
Commentary: Taylor Swift to Moo Deng: What the stranded astronauts have missed
Other astronauts have stayed a couple of hundred days on the space station. But this was a planned 10-day excursion that will ...
On a long-dormant pad in Florida, a rocket that could challenge SpaceX’s dominance is poised to launch
Nearly 25 years after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the company is finally poised to send its first rocket to orbit. New Glenn could lift off as early as next week.