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The schedule shuffle will mean NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will remain on the space station several months beyond their planned return to Earth in late March, officials said. The …

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Russia’s space agency will launch an empty Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station February to replace a damaged spacecraft that is unsafe to return its crew of three to Earth, NASA and Russian space officials said Wednesday (Jan. 11).

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The new sun video, which NASA released on YouTube Jan. 5, shows the sun as it appeared over four months from Aug. 12 to Dec. 22 in 2022. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the video as part of its constant watch for solar flares and other …

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The robotic capsule splashed down Wednesday morning (Jan. 11) off the coast of Tampa, Florida.

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A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows that they share characteristics with a rare class of galaxies called “green peas” found in our cosmic backyard. One of these galaxies, which existed when the …

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More than just a shimmering stone, opal — which is rich in water — has now been found in Mars’ Gale Crater by NASA’s Curiosity Rover. Martian water ice is abundant at the poles but not so much at the equator (where Gale Crater is located).

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Webb is the only telescope that has the capability to characterize the atmospheres of exoplanets that are the size of Earth. The research team used Webb to analyze the planet across multiple wavelengths of light to see whether it has an atmosphere.

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The dimming of a distant star wasn’t caused by internal changes, but rather by it being eclipsed by a cloud of dust surrounding a companion star. The discovery implies the star, Gaia17bpp, is part …

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The Local Bubble is a cavity at least 1,000 light-years wide in the interstellar gas around the solar system — a ‘superbubble’ in interstellar space. The Local Bubble was blown out by a series of …

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The sun has fired off another powerful X-class solar flare, this time from a newly emerging sunspot as it turns to face Earth. This solar outburst marks the third X-class flare in less than a week. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a massive …