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NASA, Boeing discussing Starliner astronaut mission today: Watch it live

NASA and Boeing will provide an update about the Starliner capsule's ongoing astronaut mission today (July 24), and you can watch it live.

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Jupiter's surreal clouds swirl in new van Gogh-esque view from NASA's Juno probe (photo)

Vivid clouds swirl across Jupiter's skies like colorful brushstrokes in a new photo from NASA's Juno spacecraft.

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Chinese astronauts simulate a debris-strike emergency on the Tiangong space station (video)

China's Shenzhou 18 mission staged an emergency drill recently to boost preparedness aboard the country's Tiangong space station.

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Mercury has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA spacecraft finds

Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that the solar system's tiniest planet, Mercury, hides a not-so-tiny secret: a 10-mile-thick mantle of diamond.

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James Webb Space Telescope directly images its coldest exoplanet target yet

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated a super-Jupiter that is one of the coldest exoplanets ever directly imaged.

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Astronomers Were Looking for a Planet, but They Didn't Expect This One

Epsilon Indi Ab is bigger, cooler, and farther out than anyone expected.

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Watch NASA's massive Artemis 2 rocket core stage arrive in Florida. Next stop: the moon (video, photos)

Artemis 2's core stage is near its launch site in Florida after sailing more than 900 miles from New Orleans. The rocket is scheduled to send NASA astronauts around the moon in 2025.

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Earth-based telescope sees Boeing's Starliner approach the ISS in broad daylight (photo)

Infrared telescopes scanning the skies during the day watched as Boeing's first crewed Starliner spacecraft approached the International Space Station on June 6, 2024.

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Where do the moon's weird swirls come from? Scientists are trying to find out

Scientists are getting closer to explaining where bizarre lunar patterns that seem to have the involvement of magnetic fields come from.

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'We're pushing the limits:' Artemis 2 backup astronaut on 2025 round-the-moon mission (exclusive)

NASA's Artemis 2, a round-the-moon mission with astronauts, is scheduled for a 2025 liftoff. But as backup astronaut Andre Douglas notes, safety will come before schedules on the pioneering effort.

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Evidence of Alien Life May Lie on the Surface of Europa and Enceladus, A New Study Reveals

According to recent experiments, evidence of alien life could be preserved on the surface of Enceladus, and just a few inches below the surface of Europa.

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Happy 25th anniversary, Chandra! NASA celebrates with 25 breathtaking images from flagship X-ray observatory

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the flagship Chandra X-ray observatory, NASA has released 25 never-before-seen images of iconic astronomical objects.

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21 'one-in-a-million' extreme dead stars found hiding around sun-like stars

Astronomers have detected 21 rare systems with widely separated neutron stars and sun-like stars. These binaries are "one in a million" and challenge dead star binary formation models.

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SpaceX makes Starlink Roam available throughout the US

Described as "high-speed internet on the go," SpaceX's Starlink Mini is now available from coast to coast, bringing users a world-wide connection from space.

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SpaceX wins $113 million contract to launch advanced NOAA climate satellite

SpaceX has won a $113 million contract to launch NOAA's JPSS-4 climate and weather satellite. Liftoff is targeted for 2027.

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Alien weather report: James Webb Space Telescope detects hot, sandy wind on 2 brown dwarfs

The JWST's infrared vision has seen deep into the stormy atmosphere of two brown dwarfs that form the third closest system to the sun.

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Scientists waited ages to find a 'missing link' black hole — then stumbled upon 2

A missing link black hole that sits in the mass gap between stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes is "parked" right by the Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A*.

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SpaceX Starlink satellites made 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in the past 6 months. What does that mean for space safety?

Satellites in SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation made nearly 50,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in the last six months, about double the number made in the previous half-year.

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See the moon and Saturn meet up in the night sky tonight

Look east before midnight on July 23 and 24 to see a waning gibbous moon close to the ringed planet.

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ABL Space System's 2nd RS1 rocket destroyed during preflight testing

A fire at the launch pad shortly after an engine test "caused irrecoverable damage" to ABL Space Systems' second RS1 rocket, the company announced on Monday (July 22).

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Expiring medications could pose problem for Mars astronauts

Researchers say many drugs have shelf life of three years or less, with a mission expected to take about 36 months

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Russia unveils timeline for building its new space station, starting in 2027

Russia has unveiled a comprehensive roadmap for building its newest space station and associated ground infrastructure, with the first modules expected to launch within three years.

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Watch two plumes of 'dark' plasma explode from the sun and send solar storm towards Earth (video)

Two loops of "dark" plasma exploded from the sun on July 21, sending a stream of plasma and magnetic field known as a coronal mass ejection barreling towards Earth.

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How to see Comet 13P/Olbers in the night sky this summer

Comet 13P/Olbers approached close to Earth on July 20. It was last seen from Earth in 1956.

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SpaceX has dreamed up a Dragon ship on steroids to drag the ISS out of space

SpaceX's Dragon series now has a new entrant: a larger, tougher variant that will send the ISS to its doom sometime in the 2030s.

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