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Hubble captures a wandering comet passing through the Trojan asteroids

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image of the young comet P/2019 LD2 as it orbits near Jupiter’s captured ancient asteroids, which are called Trojans. The Hubble view reveals a 400,000-mile-long tail of dust and gas flowing from the wayward comet's bright solid nucleus.

How to watch SpaceX’s 20th Starlink launch tonight

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Two NASA astronauts are spacewalking outside the ISS right now

NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins during a six-hour and 48-minute spacewalk on Sept. 1, 2016.

How to watch the Indian Space Research Organisation launch 19 satellites tonight

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NASA renames its headquarters after ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary Jackson

Bryan Jackson, grandson of Mary W. Jackson, left, and Raymond Lewis, son-in-law of Mary W. Jackson, right, unveil the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters sign during a ceremony officially naming the building, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA, began her career with the agency in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The mathematician and aerospace engineer went on to lead programs influencing the hiring and promotion of women in NASA's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. In 2019, she posthumously received the Congressional Gold Medal.

Gorgeous image of Venus snapped by the Parker Solar Probe on its way past

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.

This tiny, round probe could explore caves on the moon

A prototype developed by the University of Würzburg of the Daedalus probe that would be lowered into a lunar cave using a tether.

NASA’s next spacewalk is on Sunday. Here’s how to watch

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NASA’s Mars orbiter captures image of Perseverance’s parachute phase

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New Perseverance panorama lets you zoom in to see amazing detail

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Revealed! The secret message on Perseverance rover’s Mars parachute

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What happened to NASA’s spacecraft after it dropped off the Perseverance rover?

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Check out Perseverance’s first panoramic image from Mars

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SpaceX astronaut to become the youngest American to orbit Earth

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NASA just released this awe-inspiring video of Perseverance’s landing on Mars

This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.

Immersive 360 video captures Mission Control celebrations of Mars landing

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NASA to release actual footage of Mars rover landing. Here’s how to watch

This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.

Hubble captures the beautiful ‘tantrums of a baby star’

Herbig-Haro objects are some of the rarer sights in the night sky, taking the form of thin spindly jets of matter floating among the surrounding gas and stars. The two Herbig-Haro objects cataloged as HH46 and HH47, seen in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, were spotted in the constellation of Vela (the Sails), at a distance of over 1,400 light-years from Earth.

SS Katherine Johnson spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station

The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft aboard, launches from Pad-0A, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Northrop Grumman’s 15th contracted cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station will deliver about 8,000 pounds of science and research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew.

See a map of 25,000 supermassive black holes in distant galaxies

Preview of a Sky map showing 25,000 supermassive black holes.

Flight test for troubled Starliner capsule pushed back to April

NASA and Boeing teams are adjusting the launch date of Orbital Flight Test-2 to allow more time for CST-100 Starliner spacecraft and hardware processing.

See a preview of the Perseverance landing from the POV of the descent stage

This high-resolution still image is part of a video taken by several cameras as NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. A camera aboard the descent stage captured this shot.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity checks in from the red planet

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Famous black hole is even more massive than previously thought

An artist’s impression of the Cygnus X-1 system. This system contains the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever detected without the use of gravitational waves, weighing in at 21 times the mass of the Sun.

FAA investigation finds SpaceX explosion ‘did not endanger the public’

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How to watch the SS Katherine Johnson spacecraft launch today

The Northrop Grumman Antares rocket, with Cygnus resupply spacecraft onboard, is seen launching from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Feb. 15, 2020. The Cygnus spacecraft will carry approximately 8,000 pounds of research, supplies, and hardware to the International Space Station during the commercial provider’s upcoming cargo resupply mission for NASA.

Watch Mars landing highlights, including first images from rover

An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021.

Mars has a new explorer: NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on the red planet

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How to watch NASA’s Perseverance rover land on Mars today

An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021.

SpaceX loses Falcon 9 booster in rare landing mishap

A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on May 30, for the first crewed test flight of the Crew Dragon capsule. flight

NASA confirms Thursday’s touchdown time for Mars rover

An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover as it fires up its descent stage engines

Thursday’s special space event turns Empire State Building red

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This is the freakiest space station video you’ll see all year

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Elon Musk rates chances of Starship’s next test flight not crashing

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Perseverance rover about to embark on tricky Mars landing

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Astronomers discover baby sun orbited by three hot worlds in a ‘river of stars’

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How to watch a double feature rocket launch tonight: SpaceX and Progress 77

Russia's Progress 76 resupply ship, packed with nearly three tons of food, fuel and supplies, approaches the International Space Station above the eastern European nation of Ukraine on July 23, 2020.

NASA announces astronauts to head to ISS on fourth SpaceX Crew Dragon mission

NASA crew members of the SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station. Pictured from left are NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren and Bob Hines.

Hubble finds an unexpected collection of black holes

Artist’s Impression of the Black Hole Concentration in NGC 6397

See the Hope mission’s first stunning image of Mars

The Hope Probe's first image of Mars

Object ‘Farfarout’ confirmed as the most distant object in our solar system

This illustration imagines what the distant object nicknamed “Farfarout” might look like in the outer reaches of our Solar System.

NASA’s InSight lander is going into hibernation for the Martian winter

This illustration shows NASA's InSight spacecraft with its instruments deployed on the Martian surface.

Enjoy NASA’s dramatic Mars video a week ahead of rover’s arrival

An illustration of NASA’s Perseverance rover as it fires up its descent stage engines

Mars receives second visitor in a week as China’s Tianwen-1 arrives

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Hundreds of travelers now have Mars stamps in their passports. Here’s why

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Hope spacecraft enters Mars orbit, making history for UAE

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SpaceX’s ISS astronauts have just achieved a new record

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Astronauts on the ISS will have an out of this world view of the Super Bowl

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Misbehaving ‘baby’ black holes could cause strange brightening of radio galaxies

The radio galaxy Hercules A has an active supermassive black hole at its centre. Here it is pictured emitting high energy particles in jets expanding out into radio lobes.

UAE’s Hope mission to be first of three to arrive at Mars this month

Artist's impression of the Hope spacecraft in orbit around Mars
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