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NASA will build its lunar base camp on the moon’s south pole

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This bizarre system has six stars orbiting each other in an elaborate dance

TESS previously revealed that Thuban, a former North Star, is also a eclipsing binary, as illustrated here. Three such pairs make up a newly discovered sextuple star system called TYC 7037-89-1.

NASA and SpaceX will send next batch of astronauts to ISS in April

Members of the SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station participated in training in Hawthorne, California, on Jan. 11, 2021. Pictured from left are ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.

FAA is reportedly investigating SpaceX over its Starship tests

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NASA practices emergency procedures for crewed Boeing Starliner flights

Landing and recovery teams from Boeing and NASA take part in a crew landing dress rehearsal at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico in preparation for missions returning with astronauts from the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Four new exoplanets discovered by young astronomers still in high school

An artist's rendering of a five-planet system around TOI-1233 includes a super-Earth (foreground) that could help solve mysteries of planet formation. The four innermost planets were discovered by high schoolers Kartik Pinglé and Jasmine Wright alongside researcher Tansu Daylan. The fifth outermost planet pictured was recently discovered by a separate team of astronomers.

That indicator of life on Venus may just have been sulfur dioxide

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

NASA to perform second test of its massive SLS rocket core

The core stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is seen in the B-2 Test Stand during a hot fire test Jan. 16, 2021, at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Check out this interactive simulator for upcoming Mars rover landing

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Watch a NASA astronaut jettison part of the ISS into space

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These space tourists are each paying $55M to stay on the ISS

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How to watch the two upcoming spacewalks from the International Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy took this epic "space-selfie" during a spacewalk this at the International Space Station on July 21, 2020.

Space station aurora images make Earth look otherworldly

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SpaceX mission deploys record number of satellites and nails landing

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This iodine satellite propulsion system could help reduce space debris

A depiction of the iodine thruster developed by ThrustMe being used to change the orbit of a small satellite.

Titan’s sea of liquid methane is deep enough for a submarine to explore

An artistic rendering of Kraken Mare, the large liquid methane sea on Saturn’s moon Titan.

This strange ‘super-puff’ planet is more atmosphere than core

An artist’s impression of WASP-107b.

Stuff of nightmares: Black holes one hundred billion times the mass of the sun

This computer-simulated image shows a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy. The black region in the center represents the black hole’s event horizon, where no light can escape the massive object’s gravitational grip. The black hole’s powerful gravity distorts space around it like a funhouse mirror. Light from background stars is stretched and smeared as the stars skim by the black hole.

SpaceX Starship prototype is almost ready for its big high-altitude test

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How to watch SpaceX launch its Transporter-1 mission today

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NASA has a new dish for talking to spacecraft in the far reaches of space

Deep Space Station 56, or DSS-56, is a powerful 34-meter-wide (112-foot-wide) antenna that was added to the Deep Space Network's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain in early 2021.

Watch these NASA animations previewing its upcoming spacewalks

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How to watch SpaceX launch its first Starlink mission of 2021

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Watch this astronaut prepare for his stay at the International Space Station

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The latest wild idea for space exploration? Robots made from hunks of ice

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Boeing clears way for second test flight of its Starliner spacecraft

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Watch Virgin Orbit’s cinematic recap of its groundbreaking rocket flight

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This is the remnant of a star that exploded 1,700 years ago

This Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted approximately 1,700 years ago.

Testing Mars exploration drones on Icelandic lava flows

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This strange planet has three suns and orbits at a funky angle

This illustration shows the planet KOI-5Ab transiting across the face of a Sun-like star, which is part of a triple-star system located 1,800 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation.

NASA test fires the world’s largest rocket core stage

The core stage for the first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is seen in the B-2 Test Stand during a hot fire test Jan. 16, 2021, at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.

Scientists discover ancient rocky Super-Earth where a year lasts just 11 hours

Artist’s rendition of TOI-561, one of the oldest, most metal-poor planetary systems discovered yet in the Milky Way galaxy.

Time has run out for InSight to bury its heat probe in the Martian soil

In this artist's concept of NASA's InSight lander on Mars, layers of the planet's subsurface can be seen below, and dust devils can be seen in the background.

SpaceX needs to swap two engines out of Starship prototype before test flight

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How to watch NASA’s first four-engine hot fire of its mighty SLS rocket

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These scientists have a wildly futuristic plan to harvest energy from black holes

This artist’s impression shows the central black hole and the galaxies trapped in its gas web.

Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor talks about tech on the ISS

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Watch SpaceX fire up its Starship rocket ahead of next high-altitude flight

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International Space Station has a major upgrade task coming

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Watch NASA’s dramatic trailer for Saturday’s SLS rocket hot fire test

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E3 2021 remains a mystery even as shows like CES successfully pivot to digital

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How to watch the upgraded SpaceX Dragon capsule depart space station

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Hubble gallery of galaxies smashing together shows star clusters forming

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Super magnetic neutron star spins faster than any discovered before

In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic objects with the discovery of a magnetar. New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory help support the idea that it is also a pulsar, meaning it emits regular pulses of light.

NASA wants to use small satellites to unlock the secrets of the universe

As neutron stars collide, some of the debris blasts away in particle jets moving at nearly the speed of light, producing a brief burst of gamma rays.

How to watch the conjunction of Jupiter, Mercury, and Saturn tonight

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Scientists discover method for making rocket fuel on Mars

This concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars.

NASA extends Juno and InSight missions, will continue exploring Jupiter and Mars

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

SpaceX’s new Cargo Dragon splashdown will deliver science cargo faster than ever

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It may sound ridiculous, but the future of satellites could be steam-powered

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