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Launch for Crew-4 mission to ISS confirmed for next weekend

SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts.

Chinese astronaut trio return to Earth after six-month mission

Chinese astronauts Zhai Zhigang (C), Wang Yaping (R) and Ye Guangfu will carry out the Shenzhou-13 spaceflight mission, and Zhai will be the commander, announced the China Manned Space Agency at a press conference on Oct. 14, 2021.

NASA still struggling to fuel its Space Launch System rocket

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.

James Webb Space Telescope has gone cold, but that’s good

The James Webb Space Telescope.

Largest comet ever seen is coming our way, but don’t worry

A comet zipping through the universe.

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter sets new flight records on Mars

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter.

Watch how the Perseverance rover drives autonomously across Mars

Perseverance illustration

One of James Webb’s first targets is Jupiter. Here’s why

Artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope

Neptune’s temperatures are fluctuating, and no one knows why

Composite showing thermal images of Neptune taken between 2006 and 2020.

Hubble captures a snake-like spiral galaxy in the constellation of Serpens

The lazily winding spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 5921 snake across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies approximately 80 million light-years from Earth, and much like our own galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a prominent bar – a central linear band of stars. Roughly half of all spiral galaxies may contain bars. These bars affect their parent galaxies by fueling star formation and influencing the motion of stars and interstellar gas.

This extreme exoplanet’s atmosphere is being sunburned by its host star

This is an artist's illustration of the planet KELT-20b which orbits a blue-white star. The giant planet is so close to its star (5 million miles) the torrent of ultraviolet radiation from the star heats the planet's atmosphere to over 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Citizen scientists are helping to map Mars’s strange ridge features

Unusual ridge networks on Mars may provide clues about the history of the Red Planet.

This galaxy is a mind-bending 13.5 billion light-years away

A zoom-in image of galaxy HD1.

Curiosity rover nopes out of region of sharp Mars rocks

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to survey these wind-sharpened rocks, called ventifacts, on March 15, 2022, the 3,415th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The team has informally described these patches of ventifacts as “gator-back” rocks because of their scaly appearance.

First space tourism mission arrives at International Space Station

The Moon is pictured (bottom left) as the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour approaches the station with four Axiom Mission 1 astronauts.

NASA pushes its mega moon rocket test back to next week

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher.

James Webb’s MIRI instrument about to face most daunting challenge yet

MIRI is inspected in the giant clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2012.

How to watch NASA’s first space tourism launch to the ISS today

The Ax-1 crew heading to the space station on April 6, 2022.

NASA sets new date for first launchpad test of its mega moon rocket

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

SpaceX documentary about historic mission hits Netflix

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from Cape Canaveral.

Ax-1 space tourism mission to ISS needs good weather to launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the launchpad ahead of NASA's first space tourism trip to the ISS.

Rocket Lab plans to catch a falling rocket this month

A helicopter plucks a dummy booster from the sky during a test run by Rocket Lab in 2020.

NASA’s Mars helicopter will fly furthest yet in next flight

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter.

NASA’s first space tourism mission to ISS delayed

The International Space Station.

NASA calls off second try at moon rocket launchpad test

NASA's SLS rocket on the launchpad.

Blue Origin highlights reel celebrates its first space tourism flight of 2022

Blue Origin launching its fourth crewed flight.

NASA scrubs Space Launch System test due to fan issue

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher.

Hubble captures a dusty galaxy that holds a luminous secret

Tendrils of dark dust threading across the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172.

How Perseverance is moving faster than any previous Mars rover

The back of the Perseverance rover and its wheel tracks.

Two modules of dark matter spacecraft Euclid are joined

Tthe 800-kilogram Euclic payload module being lifted by a crane with workers gathered around.

Astronomers discover ‘Jupiter’s identical twin’ exoplanet

exoplanet haul transits2 on starfield editable 02 20x30

Hubble smashes record for most distant star ever seen

Tthe light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the Universe’s birth in the Big Bang (at a redshift of 6.2), captured by Hubble.

What Perseverance rover recordings tell us about sound on Mars

The two microphones of the Perseverance Mars Rover are labeled.

NASA’s test of its massive moon rocket is underway today

Space Launch System ready for wet dress rehearsal, a sunrise in the background.

See ridged ‘brain terrain’ crater captured by Mars Express

The Utopia Planitia, a plain that fills one of three major basins in the northern hemisphere of Mars.

Three of James Webb’s four instruments are now aligned

This artist’s conception shows the fully unfolded James Webb Space Telescope in space.

Check out NASA’s skywatching tips for April

how to photograph perseid meteor shower night sky with

Look at what a NASA Mars orbiter spotted from 180 miles away

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)

Watch NASA’s video celebrating record-breaking space mission

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei aboard the space station.

U.S. astronaut returns home after record-breaking mission

U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei back on Earth.

SpaceX will stop making new Crew Dragon capsules. Here’s why

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Watch this cinematic trailer for NASA’s first ISS tourism mission

The International Space Station.

NASA delays launch of its first tourism mission to ISS

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX forced to wait longer for Super Heavy flight clearance

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft atop the Super Heavy booster.

U.S. astronaut shares highs and lows of record space trip

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei aboard the space station.

Astronomers simulate the early universe and the birth of the first galaxies

Still image from a Thesan simulation showing the universe 251 million years after the Big Bang. The orange halos represent the burst of radiation, or light, outpouring from early galaxies.

Hubble captures an elegant spiral galaxy 60 million light-years away

A stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4571.

Sentinel-6 spacecraft becomes official ocean-monitoring satellite

Illustration showing the front of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft in orbit above Earth with its deployable solar panels extended.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity hits 23rd flight, can’t be stopped

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter.

How to watch record-breaking astronaut return to Earth this week

NASA astronaut and Expedition 66 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei poses for a photo on Feb. 10, 2022, while configuring the Combustion Integrated Rack in the U.S. Destiny laboratory module of the International Space Station to support a pair of fire safety experiments.
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