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A leaky Soyuz capsule at the International Space Station test-fired its thrusters on Friday (Dec. 16) as Russian engineers investigated why it suffered an uncontrolled coolant spill this week. The Russian …

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The radiant point of the Ursids is located in the constellation Ursa Minor and for viewers in New York City, this means it is always above the horizon, or “circumpolar,” meaning the Ursids should be visible through the night.

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A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN —. Some of our favorite space missions are closing out the year in a big way. Artemis I made a literal splash(down) when it …

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The Sample Retrieval Lander also carries the Mars Ascent Vehicle — the first rocket that will ever launch from the Martian surface, with the samples tucked safely inside. The spacecraft is set to launch from Mars in 2031.

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A research team led by Caroline Piaulet, a PhD student at the University of Montreal’s Institute for Research on Exoplanets, used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to observe the distant planetary system. The …

Mashable

The mission, called Artemis I, hauled the agency’s latest lunar-bound spacecraft, Orion, which carried three mannequins on a looping journey around the moon. In the coming years, perhaps as soon as 2025, an Artemis mission may once again land astronauts on …

CNET

Plus, they might have stumbled upon another exoplanet in its star’s habitable zone. Monisha Ravisetti headshot. Monisha Ravisetti.

Space.com

SpaceX carried out its milestone 200th orbital mission on Friday (Dec. 16), sending up a pair of powerful new communications satellites. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Friday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at …

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The Kepler telescope found these planets. But astronomers then peered deeper at these worlds with both the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. They found the exoplanets to be over three times the size of Earth, but much less massive, …

USA TODAY

Dec. 5, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility drove atoms together with lasers in a test that produced more energy than was used to create it — a process known as “ignition.” …