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SpaceX Mega Rocket Starship's Next Launch On June 5

Starship, the world's most powerful rocket, is set for its next test flight on June 5, SpaceX announced on Friday.

International Business Times

Safety comes 1st for Artemis moon missions despite 'space race' with China, NASA chief says

Artemis 2 and Artemis 3, both moon missions with astronauts, were delayed by NASA earlier this year. NASA chief Bill Nelson told a Senate committee the new schedule is on track, but only if safety isn't compromised.

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May full moon 2024: See the Flower Moon blossom in gorgeous photos from around the world

Explore stunning photos of the May full moon captured by skywatchers from around the world.

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How NASA Misplaced a Whole Forest of Moon Trees

Remember the trees grown around the U.S. from seeds that made it to the Moon? No? Well, there’s a reason for that. Here's the whole true story of the missing moon trees.

Inverse

How can we protect satellites in Earth-moon space? This new software could help

New algorithms are being developed to automatically monitor satellites and prevent collisions in cislunar space, the realm between Earth and the moon.

Space

Potentially habitable planet size of Earth discovered 40 light years away

Queensland- and Scotland-based PhD students co-lead team celebrating ‘Eureka moment’ spotting Gliese 12b

The Guardian - AU

Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space

NASA's Psyche mission to a metallic asteroid is now under the power of solar-electric propulsion.

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We could float effortlessly in Pluto's subsurface ocean

A subsurface ocean of liquid water may exist beneath Pluto's nitrogen ice, according to an analysis of data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe.

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International Space Development Conference 2024 beams up Star Trek's William Shatner and more in Los Angeles

The stars of Star Trek are about to get a taste of real-life space exploration when they beam into the 2024 International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles this weekend.

Space

China launches test satellite to very low Earth orbit (video)

China launched four satellites on Tuesday (May 21) to test out new technologies. The spacecraft went up on the third-ever launch of the Kuaizhou-11 solid rocket.

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SpaceX Dragon joins Mercury and Apollo capsules on display in Chicago

A twice-flown SpaceX capsule has debuted at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, next to a Mercury spacecraft and an Apollo command module.

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Is Boeing’s Starliner An Anomaly, Or Is Space Flight Just Really Hard?

NASA has once again pushed back Boeing Starliner's first astronaut flight. Here's why that's normal.

Inverse

NASA space telescope finds Earth-size exoplanet that's 'not a bad place' to hunt for life

NASA exoplanet-hunter TESS has found a temperate, Earth-size world in the habitable zone of its red dwarf star. This planet could make waves in the search for life.

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'Death Star' black holes caught blasting powerful beams at multiple targets: Watch out Alderaan! (video)

Supermassive black holes that are blasting out beams of high-energy particles killing star formation in their galaxies are shifting targets like real-life Death Stars.

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Space Force wants 7 new telescopes in Hawaii. Local residents say 'no'

Some Hawaii residents oppose plans from the U.S. Space Force to build a suite of new telescopes designed to track and prevent satellites in orbit from colliding.

The Independent UK

Astronomers discover potentially habitable planet

Named Gliese 12 b, the planet is just 40 light-years away from Earth.

Space

Things are finally looking up for the Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft

Voyager 1's mission has been tumultuous lately, but scientists on the probe's flight team have turned optimistic about the situation.

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1st astronaut launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule now targeted for June 1

Boeing is now targeting June 1 for the first-ever crewed launch of its Starliner capsule, a test flight that will send two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

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See May's Full Flower Moon blossom in the night sky tonight

The Full Flower Moon will be in the Scorpius constellation tonight (May 23), rising in the southeast just after sunset.

International Business Times

Euclid Space Telescope Unveils New Images Of The Cosmos

A mind-boggling number of shining galaxies, a purple and orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way: new images were revealed from Europe's Euclid space telescope on Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

Euclid telescope spies rogue planets floating free in Milky Way

Wandering worlds are seen deep inside Orion nebula, a giant cloud of dust and gas 1,500 light years away

Space

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on 2nd leg of spaceflight doubleheader (video)

SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink satellites from Florida on Wednesday (May 22), the second mission in less than 24 hours for the company.

International Business Times

French, Belgian Astronauts Named Next Europeans To Fly To ISS

France's Sophie Adenot and Belgium's Raphael Liegeois will be the first two from a new class of European astronauts to blast off to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency said Wednesday.

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Scientists find weird link between a solar mystery and feeding black holes

The solar dynamo that drives sunspots and solar flares could be located near the surface of the sun scientists find, solving a 400-year-old solar mystery and providing a weird link to black holes.

The Independent UK

Early warning space weather satellite Vigil to be built in the UK

The spacecraft will give extra warning about incoming solar storms and coronal mass ejections which can potentially disrupt satellites in orbit.

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