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A sizable coolant leak from one of Russia’s Soyuz crew spacecraft docked to the International Space Station forced cosmonauts to cancel a spacewalk as flight controllers on the ground worked to troubleshoot the problem. The leak, which was traced back …

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Russia’s space agency has called off another spacewalk at the International Space Station as engineers investigate why a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft docked there began leaking coolant late Wednesday (Dec. 14). Officials …

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After exploring Jupiter’s moons Ganymede and Europa, NASA’s Juno probe is about to set its sights on the third of the giant planet’s four main moons — the mysterious volcanic moon Io. Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, received commands …

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The agency issued a statement on Thursday (Dec. 15) stating that decisions about the future of the MS-22 crew are still being made.

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The world’s first methane-fueled rocket to be launched toward orbit has failed to reach its goal. The Zhuque-2 rocket, developed by Beijing-based company Landspace, lifted off Wednesday (Dec. 14) on the first-ever orbital mission of a methane-fueled …

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Particles of coolant leak from Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now. A Russian Soyuz crew ferry ship docked to the International Space Station spewed particles of an unknown …

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It’s been a triumphant year for the James Webb Space Telescope. From a flawless launch on Christmas Day 2021, through a perfectly executed deployment sequence, to early images that took everybody’s breath away, the $10 billion space observatory has …

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Two planets found by NASA’s retired Kepler Space Telescope may be made mostly of water, according to new research. The two exoplanets, dubbed Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d, orbit a star located about 218 light-years away from Earth in the constellation …

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SpaceX has delayed the launch from California of a Falcon 9 rocket with a U.S.-French environmental monitoring satellite from Thursday to Friday, allowing more time to review the source of moisture in two of the launcher’s booster engines.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to amaze, this time with an exquisite image revealing previously unseen galaxies in an area known as the North Ecliptic Pole. The image is one of the few medium-deep, wide-field images of our cosmos and shows …