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How to watch SpaceX launch its second batch of satellites in 24 hours
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Scientists grow plants in lunar soil for first time
Scientists observing the plant growth experiment.
See first-ever image of monstrous black hole at the heart of the Milky Way
This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It’s the first direct visual evidence of the presence of this black hole. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together eight existing radio observatories across the planet to form a single “Earth-sized” virtual telescope. The telescope is named after the “event horizon”, the boundary of the black hole beyond which no light can escape.
Starliner team confirms crucial space mission is ‘go for launch’
The Starliner on its way to being stacked on ULA's Atlas V rocket.
Check out the first hi-res images from NOAA’s new satellite
Earth as seen by NOAA's GOES-18 weather satellite.
Boeing time-lapse shows Starliner spacecraft’s easiest journey yet
Engineers working on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
Virgin Galactic delays commercial launch of space tourism service
Virgin Galactic's space plane heading to the edge of space.
NASA’s InSight lander detects ‘monster quake’ on Mars
InSight lander dome
NASA won’t try testing its Space Launch System rocket again until June
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B, Monday, April 4, 2022.
See the ‘grand design’ of spiral galaxy M99 in this Hubble image
The magnificent spiral galaxy M99 fills the frame in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. M99 – which lies roughly 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices – is a “grand design” spiral galaxy, so-called because of the well-defined, prominent spiral arms visible in this image. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured M99 on two separate occasions, helping astronomers study two entirely different astronomical phenomena. The image above includes data from both sets of observations.
Time spent in space changes the structure of astronauts’ brains
The International Space Station captured from the Crew Dragon.
Dust threatens the future of Mars helicopter Ingenuity
NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Left Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.
See NASA’s visualizations of black holes for Black Hole Week
This image shows the warped view of a larger supermassive black hole (red) when it passes almost directly behind a companion black hole (blue) with half its mass. The gravity of the foreground black hole transforms its partner into a surreal collection of arcs.
See two galaxies in the process of merging in this Dark Energy Camera image
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark Energy Camera, a state-of-the art wide-field imager on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. NGC 1512 has been in the process of merging with its smaller galactic neighbor for 400 million years, and this drawn-out interaction has ignited waves of star formation and warped both galaxies.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft almost ready for launch to weird metal asteroid
The Psyche spacecraft sits in the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
How engineers will calibrate James Webb’s 4 instruments
James Webb Space Telescope illustration.
Crew-3 astronauts splash down safely following 6-month ISS mission
From left to right, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthais Maurer, NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX Shannon recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Friday, May 6, 2022. Maurer, Marshburn, Chari, and Barron are returning after 177 days in space as part of Expeditions 66 and 67 aboard the International Space Station.
James Webb Space Telescope to feature on new U.S. stamps
Stamps showing the James Webb Space Telescope.
How to watch SpaceX Crew-3 depart the space station tonight
Crew-3 prior to departure from the ISS.
Watch Boeing’s Starliner capsule hoisted atop Atlas V rocket
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Watch SpaceX astronauts perform a ‘waltz’ in microgravity conditions
Astronauts testing their spacesuits on the ISS.
Rocket Lab’s booster catch didn’t go entirely according to plan
The moment Rocket Lab's helicopter caught the rocket booster.
How to watch Rocket Lab catch a falling rocket booster on Monday
A helicopter plucks a dummy booster from the sky during a test run by Rocket Lab in 2020.
SpaceX’s Crew-3 astronauts wrap up six-month ISS mission
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Do look up: NASA’s skywatching tips for May
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Saturn’s moon Titan may be more Earth-like than we thought
These three mosaics of Titan were composed with data from Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer taken during the last three Titan flybys, on Oct. 28, 2005 (left), Dec. 26, 2005 (middle), and Jan. 15, 2006 (right). In a new study, researchers have shown how Titan’s distinct dunes, plains, and labyrinth terrains could be formed.
Hubble Space Telescope images exceptionally fluffy galaxy
The ultra-diffuse galaxy GAMA 526784 appears as a tenuous patch of light in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This wispy object resides in the constellation Hydra, roughly four billion light-years from Earth. Ultra-diffuse galaxies such as GAMA 526784 have a number of peculiarities. For example, they can have either very low or high amounts of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe. Observations of ultra-diffuse galaxies found some with an almost complete lack of dark matter, whereas others consist of almost nothing but dark matter. Another oddity of this class of galaxies is their unusual abundance of bright globular clusters, something not observed in other types of galaxies.
NASA’s observatory on a plane, SOFIA, will fly no more
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
Perseverance rover begins exploration of ancient river delta on Mars
Perseverance looks towards the Delta on Sol 419, capturing this image with its Right Navigation Camera.
Hubble spies on 25 hot Jupiters to learn about their atmospheres
Archival observations of 25 hot Jupiters by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
FAA review of SpaceX Starship launch delayed by another month
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft atop the Super Heavy booster.
Could the earliest building blocks of life have come from space?
Conceptual image of meteoroids delivering nucleobases to ancient Earth. The nucleobases are represented by structural diagrams with hydrogen atoms as white spheres, carbon as black, nitrogen as blue and oxygen as red.
Watch NASA drop capsule from 1,200 feet to test Mars Sample Return system
Mars Sample Return drop test.
James Webb Space Telescope fully aligned and capturing crisp images
Engineering images of sharply focused stars in the field of view of each instrument demonstrate that the telescope is fully aligned and in focus.
Space station’s new robotic arm springs to life
The European Robotic Arm attached to the space station.
Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon thrusters guide it to space station
A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at the space station.
Watch SpaceX’s Crew-4 astronauts arrive at new home in space
SpaceX Crew-4 arriving at the space station in April 2022.
NASA’s Mars drone captures cool shots of rover landing gear
The landing gear from Perseverance's descent to Mars in 2021.
SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts are on their way to the space station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Crew-4 astronauts launching from the Kennedy Space Center.
Moon, Mars, and more: NASA extends 8 planetary missions
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Boeing gears up for crucial space mission in May
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is in view in the United Launch Alliance Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex 41 on Aug. 9, 2021.
How to watch SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts launch to ISS
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from Cape Canaveral.
Watch how space station astronauts get ready for bed
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Rocket Lab video shows practice run for midair rocket catch
Rocket Lab attempting to catch a dummy booster as it falls to Earth.
Watch the splashdown of NASA’s first private ISS mission
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Largest marsquakes yet detected using InSight data
This illustration shows NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface.
Hubble captures an angelic merging of galaxies
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features two merging galaxies in the VV-689 system, nicknamed the Angel Wing.
NASA has a plan to fix Lucy spacecraft’s solar array problem
An artist's concept of the Lucy Mission.
James Webb’s mirrors are almost, but not quite, cooled
The James Webb Space Telescope.
Axiom-1 to depart from ISS today after extra days in space
The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship is pictured docked to the Harmony module's space-facing international docking adapter.
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