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It's alive! It's alive! Orion throws back its cover | Space picture of the day for April 22, 2025

NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion's forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.

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NASA rover discovers out-of-place 'Skull' on Mars, and scientists are baffled

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has discovered unusual "float" rocks on the rim of Jezero Crater while searching for signs of ancient microbial life. Scientists are investigating their origin.

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Has the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a 'missing' supermassive black hole? (video)

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy.

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NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.

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We took a guided tour of the solar system in Elite Dangerous, and now you can too (interview)

Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our home system.

Space

Astronomers discover doomed planet shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material every orbit, leaving behind a comet-like tail

Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing into space.

Space

NASA’s oldest active astronaut lands at Scottish airport after mission

NASA’s longest-serving and oldest active astronaut, Don Pettit, made an unexpected stop in Glasgow following his return to Earth from a recent…

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Musk's $2 Trillion Promise Falls Short: DOGE Delivers Just 7.5% Of Target Savings

DOGE's $150B savings fall short of Musk's $2T promise, sparking theories of profit-driven motives. From SpaceX gains to data grabs, what's behind the cuts?

International Business Times

Musk's £1.56 Trillion Promise Falls Short: DOGE Delivers Just 7.5% Of Target Savings

DOGE's £117B savings fall short of Musk's £1.56T promise, sparking theories of profit-driven motives. From SpaceX gains to data grabs, what's behind the cuts?

International Business Times UK

Our galactic neighbor Andromeda has a bunch of satellite galaxies — and they're weirdly pointing at us

The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.

Space

SpaceX CRS-32 Dragon cargo capsule arrives at the ISS with 6,700 pounds of supplies (video)

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the International Space Station this morning (April 22), docking to the orbital lab after more than a day catching up in orbit.

Space

Rare ‘smiley face’ planet alignment to light up night sky this week

Sky watchers anywhere in the world can see the spectacle

The Independent UK

Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut at 70, arrives in Houston after 7-month space mission (photo)

NASA's oldest active astronaut, the 70-year-old Don Pettit, has returned home to Houston after a seven-month stint aboard the International Space Station.

Space

Have signs of life been found on another planet? Scientists are calling that into question

Researchers say claims of promising hints of life off Earth indicate enthusiasm is ‘outpacing evidence’

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NASA's Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby

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NASA's Curiosity rover finds major clue that Mars was once habitable

NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars — a major clue that the Red Planet used to be habitable.

Space

SpaceX launches its 32nd Dragon cargo mission to the ISS for NASA (video)

SpaceX launched its 32nd cargo mission to the International Space Station today (April 21), sending more than 3 tons of supplies and scientific hardware to the orbiting lab for NASA.

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SpaceX launching Dragon cargo capsule to ISS early April 21: Watch it live

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a robotic Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station early Monday morning (April 21), and you can watch the action live.

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Life on Mars could survive — so long as you're one of these strange, hybrid lifeforms

Researchers bombarded lichens with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, hinting that the extremophiles could potentially live on the Red Planet.

The Conversation

150 years ago, the Metre Convention determined how we measure the world — a radical initiative for the time

On May 20, 1875, delegates from a group of 17 countries gathered in Paris to sign what may be the most overlooked yet globally influential treaty in history: the Metre Convention.

The Independent UK

A Soyuz capsule with 2 Russians and 1 American returns to Earth from the International Space Station

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station

LiveScience

Space photo of the week: James Webb telescope reveals hidden past of the 'Crystal Ball Nebula'

The James Webb Space Telescope has pointed its infrared optics at the 'Crystal Ball Nebula' NGC 1514, a planetary nebula studied since the late 1800s.

The Independent UK

Nasa astronaut returns from space station on his 70th birthday

Space observers raised concerns about Don Pettit’s health following his return

Al Jazeera

Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft brings NASA, Russia astronauts back to earth

Landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan coincides with US astronaut Donald Pettit’s 70th birthday.

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Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Expedition 72 crew lands in Kazakhstan

A Russian Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut has returned to Earth as the International Space Station’s Expedition 72 crew end their seven-month research assignment.

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