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New moon of April 2025 sees Venus and Saturn join up in the sky this weekend.

New moon of April 2025 sees Venus and Saturn join up in the sky this weekend.
The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a conjunction) in the predawn sky. To make a new moon, you need to line up the sun, moon and Earth. From the earthbound observer's viewpoint, the sun and moo…
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China's Shenzhou 20 astronauts arrive at Tiangong space station.

China's Shenzhou 20 astronauts arrive at Tiangong space station.
China's latest astronaut crew has reached its orbital destination. The three-person Shenzhou 20 mission arrived at China's Tiangong space station today (April 24) at 11:49 a.m. EDT (1549 GMT), beginning a six-month stay aboard the outpost. Their off-Earth chase was br…
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Mars is covered in evidence of ancient lakes, rain and snow.

Mars is covered in evidence of ancient lakes, rain and snow.
Though Mars, the Red Planet, is a vast and inhospitable land today, scientists think it once resembled our very own Earth — the Blue Planet, if you will. More specifically, experts say Mars once had a warm, wet climate, and their belief is based on striking geological featu…
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Happy 35th birthday, Hubble Telescope !

Happy 35th birthday, Hubble Telescope !
For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has served as humanity's tireless eye in the sky, capturing breathtaking views of the cosmos and transforming our understanding of the universe. The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbac…
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Aurora alert! Powerful geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights as far south as Illinois and Oregon tonight.

Aurora alert! Powerful geomagnetic storm could spark northern lights as far south as Illinois and Oregon tonight.
Aurora chasers, get ready! The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has issued a geomagnetic storm warning due to an incoming one-two punch from the sun, and we have just possibly received the first blow. The pre…
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Katy Perry back on Earth after space flight.

Katy Perry back on Earth after space flight.
Pop star Katy Perry completed a brief foray into space Monday, April 14, roaring to the edge of the cosmos with an all-woman crew on one of billionaire Jeff Bezos’s rockets. The “Firework” and “California Gurls” singer was lofted more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) above the…
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Gayle King, Katy Perry, crew of all women launch to space.

Gayle King, Katy Perry, crew of all women launch to space.
A group of women that includes singer Katy Perry and broadcast journalist Gayle King are now the latest civilians to have boarded a commercial spacecraft for a quick trip beyond Earth's atmosphere. The star-studded Monday morning voyage to the edge of space took place fr…
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01st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil delayed due to unsafe winds.

01st-ever orbital rocket launch from European soil delayed due to unsafe winds.
The first orbital rocket to launch from continental Europe is nearing its debut. Germany-based Isar Aerospace was targeting no earlier than Monday, March 24, for the maiden voyage of its brand new Spectrum rocket. The Spectrum was set to liftoff from the Andøya Spaceport, in…
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James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds.

James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds.
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could provide the best chance for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to detect biosignatures, according to a new study. Those potential signs of life are a g…
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SpaceX sets new rocket-reuse record on launch of US spy satellites.

SpaceX sets new rocket-reuse record on launch of US spy satellites.
SpaceX set a new rocket-reuse record early Friday morning (March 21). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday at 2:49 a.m. EDT (0649 GMT; 11:49 p.m. on March 20 local California time), on the NROL-57 mission for the U.S. National…
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Oxygen discovered in most distant galaxy ever seen.

Oxygen discovered in most distant galaxy ever seen.
Astronomers have found oxygen in the farthest, and thus the earliest, galaxy ever seen. This marks the most distant detection of oxygen ever made by humanity. This early galaxy, designated JADES-GS-z14-0, has 10 times the amount of heavy elements that would be expected in a …
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Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy.

Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy.
Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way…
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Private Starlab space station moves into 'full-scale development' ahead of 2028 launch.

Private Starlab space station moves into 'full-scale development' ahead of 2028 launch.
The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production phase, having passed a key development milestone with NASA. Starlab, a joint project between the U.S. space technology firm Voyager Space and European aerospace conglomerate Airbus, will consist of …
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Health impacts of 9 months in space as 2 NASA astronauts return home after extended stay on ISS.

Health impacts of 9 months in space as 2 NASA astronauts return home after extended stay on ISS.
NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams are returning to Earth after spending an unplanned nine months in space. The pair performed the first astronaut-crewed Boeing's Starliner capsule flight to the International Space Statio…
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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams Return to Earth after Being Stuck in Space for 9 Months.

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams Return to Earth after Being Stuck in Space for 9 Months.
Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are officially back home. The astronauts safely returned to Earth on March 18, following an extended nine month stay in space. Their journey back comes after a joint NASA and SpaceX crew of four astronauts—from the United Stat…
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SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrives at International Space Station to relieve Starliner astronauts.

SpaceX's Crew-10 mission arrives at International Space Station to relieve Starliner astronauts.
SpaceX's Crew-10 astronaut mission has arrived at the International Space Station, ending a 28-hour orbital chase. Crew-10 launched on Friday evening (March 14) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sending four astronauts from three different nations toward the orbiting lab. Cr…
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SpaceX's Crew-10 mission is on its way to the ISS

SpaceX's Crew-10 mission is on its way to the ISS
SpaceX's Crew-10 mission has successfully launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03PM Eastern on March 14. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov…
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Starship, carrying Tesla's bot, set for Mars by end-2026.

Starship, carrying Tesla's bot, set for Mars by end-2026.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Friday 14th that Starship is set to depart for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Tesla, opens new tab humanoid bot Optimus.  Musk suggested in a post on X that human landings could begin as early as 2029, though 2031 was more likely if t…
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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe.

Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe.
Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of its instruments, and gaining new images of Mars' little-seen moon Deimos, which could…
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Dead Athena moon lander seen inside its crater grave from lunar orbit.

Dead Athena moon lander seen inside its crater grave from lunar orbit.
We now have shots of the Athena moon lander's final resting place. Athena, the second lunar lander from Houston company Intuitive Machines, tipped over during its touchdown on March 6, ending up on its side within a small crater near the moon's south pole. This orient…
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