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Make no mistake: we are currently living in the Golden Age of space exploration. Right now, as you read these words, we have robots on the Moon, autonomous rovers on Mars, and roughly a half dozen asteroid mining companies prospecting for precious metals in space. What will happen tomorrow? Tune in to DT’s space coverage to get all the latest news and commentary on everything from SpaceX to space junk, and keep pace with all the most important things happening in the final frontier.

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This Mercury flyby video shows the planet in amazing detail

By Trevor Mogg
Mercury viewed from an ESA spacecraft.
Virgin Orbit rocket

Virgin Orbit in final prep for its first night-time rocket launch

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The massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351 is captured in this image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. This galaxy cluster lies in the constellation Ursa Major in the northern hemisphere.

This galaxy cluster is so massive it warps space-time and bends light

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One of the MeerKAT antennae.

Linking 64 antennae together to see the radio universe on a grand scale

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You can help analyze Juno images of Jupiter’s clouds

By Georgina Torbet
An image of the 22nd orbit of the Juno spacecraft around Jupiter shows the region close to the north pole of the planet. There is a huge diversity in the colors and shapes of these vortices (hurricane-like storms). Scientists need to create a catalog of these storms in order to understand how they form.

This giant map of minerals on Mars is a piece of modern art

By Georgina Torbet
Seen are six views of the Nili Fossae region of Mars captured by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, one of the instruments aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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How to watch NASA launch a satellite into an experimental lunar orbit

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Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket sits on the pad at the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand for wet dress rehearsal ahead of the CAPSTONE launch.

See the crater left by a space junk impact on the moon

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A rocket body impacted the Moon on March 4, 2022, near Hertzsprung crater, creating a double crater roughly 28 meters wide in the longest dimension. LROC NAC M1407760984R; image enlarged 3x

How astronauts on the ISS are growing crops without soil

2 days ago
XROOTS hardware undergoing ground-based plant tests.

NASA’s moon rocket could launch as soon as August this year

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NASA’s Psyche mission launch delayed until at least 2023

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BepiColombo mission shares stunning image of Mercury flyby

4 days ago
Mercury captured by an orbiter during a flyby of the distant planet.

SpaceX rolls Super Heavy booster to launchpad for key test

SpaceX's Super Heavy booster on its way to the launchpad in June 2022.

See how this ISS astronaut recreated a moment from Gravity movie

ISS astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti recreates a moment from the hit movie Gravity.

SpaceX claims 5G plan could ‘render Starlink unusable for most Americans’

A Starlink dish.

Space traveler offers advice to wannabe astronauts

June 21, 2022
Samantha Cristoforetti aboard the International Space Station.

NASA completes prelaunch test of its mega moon rocket

June 21, 2022
NASA's SLS rocket on its way to the launchpad.

China could bring first Mars samples to Earth before NASA

June 21, 2022
A spacecraft above Mars.

Watch SpaceX’s 3 launches and 3 landings across just 3 days

June 20, 2022
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from Cape Canaveral.

NASA documentary celebrates Black space explorers

June 20, 2022
NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson aboard the ISS in 2010.

Hubble Space Telescope snaps sparkling globular cluster near the heart of our galaxy

June 19, 2022
This star-studded image shows the globular cluster Terzan 9 in the constellation Sagittarius, toward the center of the Milky Way. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene using its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys.

See our galactic neighbors as you’ve never seen them before

The Andromeda galaxy, or M31, is shown here in far-infrared and radio wavelengths of light.

The long goodbye of NASA’s forty-year-old Voyager probes

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, shown in this illustration, has been exploring our solar system since 1977, along with its twin, Voyager 2.

Two rocky super-Earths discovered just 33 light-years away

Illustration of two newly discovered, rocky "super-Earths" that could be ideal for follow-up atmospheric observations.

Hubble Space Telescope finds destructive white dwarf ripping apart planetary pieces

June 18, 2022
This illustration shows a white dwarf star siphoning off debris from shattered objects in a planetary system. The Hubble Space Telescope detects the spectral signature of the vaporized debris that revealed a combination of rocky-metallic and icy material, the ingredients of planets. The findings help describe the violent nature of evolved planetary systems and the composition of its disintegrating bodies.

‘Alien’ signal seen by Chinese telescope likely due to radio interference

June 18, 2022
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NASA beginning its 4th go at crucial Artemis mission rocket test tonight

June 18, 2022
An image of NASA’s moon rocket at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, rolling out of the Vehicle Assembly Building for a 4.2-mile journey to Launch Complex 39B on March 17, 2022.

SpaceX fires employees for open letter critical of Elon Musk

June 18, 2022
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How to watch SpaceX launch a German radar satellite this morning

June 18, 2022
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NASA’s Mars rover shares amazing images of rocky landscape

June 17, 2022
Rocks inside Mars' Jezero Crater.

NASA reveals crew for Starliner spacecraft’s first astronaut flight

Boeing's Starliner capsule docked at the ISS.

NASA confirms date for final test of its mega moon rocket

NASA's mega moon rocket on the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover makes an unexpected find

A thermal blanket from Perseverance's landing stage.

Elon Musk says Starship will be ready for first flight in July

June 15, 2022
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft atop the Super Heavy booster.

SpaceX takes major step toward first orbital Starship launch

June 14, 2022
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft atop the Super Heavy booster.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter bags prestigious aviation award

June 13, 2022
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter.

SpaceX expecting long-awaited Starship decision on Monday

June 13, 2022
SpaceX's Starship spacecraft atop the Super Heavy booster.

Astra rocket fails to deliver two NASA storm satellites to orbit

June 12, 2022
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Hubble images a globular cluster that holds a mystery

June 12, 2022
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7496, which lies over 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus. This constellation, whose name is Latin for crane, is one of four constellations collectively known as the Southern Birds.

What is creating these incredibly bright radio flashes?

Artist's conception of a neutron star with an ultra-strong magnetic field, called a magnetar, emitting radio waves (red). Magnetars are a leading candidate for what generates Fast Radio Bursts.

See the crater scar left on Mars by an ancient impact

This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows part of the scarred and colourful landscape that makes up Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars.

NASA to wade into the issue of UFOs with new study

Navy UAP UFO Footage
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