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NASA and Axiom finalize deal to send first private crew to ISS

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NASA spacecraft begins long journey home with asteroid sample

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface.

Gorgeous time-lapse shows starry night at rocket launch site

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Boeing names date for second Starliner capsule test flight

A graphic rendering of the Boeing Starliner orbiting Earth.

You might be able to see a NASA research rocket launch tonight

A four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket.

Parker Solar Probe detects a natural radio signal coming from Venus

When flying past Venus in July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument, short for Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere that recombine into molecules in the nightside. The prominent dark feature in the center of the image is Aphrodite Terra, the largest highland region on the Venusian surface. Bright streaks in WISPR, such as the ones seen here, are typically caused by a combination of charged particles — called cosmic rays — sunlight reflected by grains of space dust, and particles of material expelled from the spacecraft’s structures after impact with those dust grains. The number of streaks varies along the orbit or when the spacecraft is traveling at different speeds, and scientists are still in discussion about the specific origins of the streaks here. The dark spot appearing on the lower portion of Venus is an artifact from the WISPR instrument.

‘Mars isn’t dead.’ There could be active volcanoes on the red planet

Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system.

Debris from Chinese Long March rocket falls into the Indian Ocean

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover as part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan Province on July 23, 2020.

SpaceX sets record with the 10th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket

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How to spot a habitable exoplanet by investigating its core

UBCO’s Brendan Dyck is using his geology expertise about planet formation to help identify other planets that might support life.

Hubble captures giant galaxy cluster that could help us understand dark matter

This detailed image features Abell 3827, a galaxy cluster that offers a wealth of exciting possibilities for study. Hubble observed it in order to study dark matter, which is one of the greatest puzzles cosmologists face today.

Ingenuity helicopter explores Mars on its own for the first time

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's fifth flight was captured on May 7, 2021, by one of the navigation cameras aboard the agency's Perseverance rover. This was the first time it flew to a new landing site. NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's fifth flight was captured on May 7, 2021, by one of the navigation cameras aboard the agency's Perseverance rover. This was the first time it flew to a new landing site.

Why the ISS sometimes smells like the fresh produce section of a grocery store

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NASA’s Mars helicopter aiming for new record on next flight

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter.

How to watch Crew-1 astronauts reveal details about their Crew Dragon ride

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Blue Origin names the date for its first-ever space tourism flight

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Blue Origin is about to launch ticket sales for its space tourism adventure

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An out-of-control rocket is tumbling to Earth, but you should be OK

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover as part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan Province on July 23, 2020.

NASA offers tips on what to look out for in May’s night sky

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A 10,000-year-old conflict between two stars formed the Necklace Nebula

The interaction of two doomed stars has created this spectacular ring adorned with bright clumps of gas ­– a diamond necklace of cosmic proportions. Fittingly known as the “Necklace Nebula,” this planetary nebula is located 15,000 light-years away from Earth in the small, dim constellation of Sagitta (the Arrow).

What space agencies learned from a simulated asteroid impact

Artist's impression of ESA's Hera Mission, a small spacecraft which aims to investigate whether an asteroid headed for Earth could be deflected.

See where stars are born and where they die in the dwarf galaxy Sextans B

Sextans B is an irregular dwarf galaxy, meaning that it is irregularly shaped and smaller than our galaxy, the Milky Way. It lies around 4.5 million light-years from Earth and is located in the constellation Sextans in the southern sky. Captured with the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, this image of Sextans B features red-colored star-forming regions near the galaxy’s center. Surrounding the galaxy are several bright stars that are located much closer to us in our galaxy, identified by the crisscross patterns created by light interacting with the structure of the telescope, as well as numerous fuzzy-looking background galaxies that appear small because they are much farther away than Sextans B.

Crew-1 astronauts splash down safely off the Florida coast

NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, right are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, at 2:56 a.m. EDT May 2, 2021.

SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts return to Earth tomorrow in rare nighttime splashdown

Clockwise from bottom right are Expedition 64 Flight Engineers and SpaceX Crew-1 members Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi.

We finally know exactly how long a day on Venus lasts

An image of Venus compiled using data from the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974

Hubble observes a giant planet growing as it gobbles up dust and gas

This illustration of the newly forming exoplanet PDS 70b shows how material may be falling onto the giant world as it builds up mass. By employing Hubble’s ultraviolet light (UV) sensitivity, researchers got a unique look at radiation from extremely hot gas falling onto the planet, allowing them to directly measure the planet’s mass growth rate for the first time.

SpaceX scrubs the high altitude test of its SN15 Starship prototype

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Mars helicopter Ingenuity passes fourth flight and has a new mission

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took a selfie with the Ingenuity helicopter, seen here about 13 feet (3.9 meters) from the rover. This image was taken by the WASTON camera on the rover’s robotic arm on April 6, 2021, the 46th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

How to watch the SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts return to Earth this weekend

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Mars helicopter’s rotors fail to spin for ambitious fourth flight

In this illustration, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet's surface as NASA's Perseverance rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away. Ingenuity arrived at Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, attached to the belly of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

The first module of a new space station has just entered Earth’s orbit

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NASA reveals ambitious plan for Mars helicopter’s fourth flight

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Mars helicopter snaps photo of Perseverance rover, but can you spot it?

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NASA scrubs Wednesday’s return of space station’s Crew-1 astronauts

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Watch SpaceX fire up its Starship SN15 rocket ahead of next test flight

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This is what mealtime for 11 astronauts looks like on the space station

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Watch Ingenuity helicopter nail its third and most complex Mars flight yet

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Ingenuity helicopter aces 3rd test flight over the Martian surface

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter can be seen hovering during its third flight on April 25, 2021, as seen by the left Navigation Camera aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.

Mars subsurface holds potential for microbial life, study suggests

This mosaic of Mars is composed of about 100 Viking Orbiter images. The images were acquired in 1980 during mid-northern summer on Mars.

Our nearest neighboring star emits record-breaking stellar flare

Artist's conception of the violent stellar flare from Proxima Centauri discovered by scientists in 2019 using nine telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Powerful flares eject from Proxima Centauri with regularity, impacting the star's planets almost daily.

China’s first Mars rover to be named after the fire god Zhurong

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover as part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan Province on July 23, 2020.

Hubble celebrates its 31st birthday with image of a stunning but unstable star

In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the celebrated observatory at one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy to capture its beauty. The giant star featured in this latest Hubble Space Telescope anniversary image is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. The star, called AG Carinae, is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust. The nebula is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks with the ISS to drop off astronauts

The four new SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts joined the Expedition 65 crew today bringing the station population to 11.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity to make its third test flight tomorrow

In this illustration, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet's surface as NASA's Perseverance rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away. Ingenuity arrived at Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, attached to the belly of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

SpaceX successfully launches four more astronauts to space station

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Space junk animation shows how Earth’s satellites dodge dangerous debris

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NASA’s Mars helicopter nails second, more complex flight on red planet

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How to watch SpaceX launch astronauts to the ISS early Friday

The crew for the second long-duration SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2, are pictured during a training session at the SpaceX training facility in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Mission Specialist Thomas Pesquet of the (ESA (European Space Agency); Pilot Megan McArthur of NASA; Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA; and Mission Specialist Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

NASA Mars experiment success brings crewed missions closer to reality

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Mars helicopter to attempt a more complex flight on Thursday

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