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Space.com

The moon has a date with the Seven Sisters star cluster, also known as the Pleiades, in the early morning hours of Friday, July 14. Skywatchers on Earth won’t be the only ones looking over this celestial encounter between the moon and the Pleiades; …

Space.com

The mission concept involves two rocket launches, according to Reuters, which cited Chinese state media coverage of the engineer’s presentation at a space conference in the city of Wuhan. One of those launches will loft a lunar lander, and the other will …

Space.com

The two small spacecraft, which were supposed to launch with the agency’s Psyche asteroid probe, will be put in storage. Comments (0). NASA has put its Janus asteroid mission on ice after a launch delay made the twin probes’ target systems inaccessible …

CNN

Officials from China’s Manned Space Agency and visitors watch as the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on May 30, 2023, in Jiuquan, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty …

CBS News

Engineers have pinned down the cause of a hydrogen leak that destroyed a Centaur upper stage last March during qualification testing for United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket. A fix is being implemented that will delay the Vulcan’s maiden flight …

Space.com

The European Space Agency spacecraft celebrated its 20th anniversary by taking a nostalgic glance back at its planet of origin. Comments (0). earth and the moon appear as tiny specks against the black of space. A view of Earth and the moon from orbit …

Phys.Org

Scientists have discovered the traces of the world’s oldest known glaciers, dating from 2.9 billion years ago, in rocks sitting under the world’s largest gold deposits in South Africa. This suggests the presence of continental ice caps at that time and …

CBS News

Photons lost in space for 13.8 billion years were stopped in their tracks by a thousand-angstrom thickness of gold coating the 25 square meters of the James Webb Space Telescope. The data from this encounter, beamed a million miles back to earth, …

The Hill

NASA has released an image of Rho Ophiuchi, the closest star-forming region to Earth, that is providing new insights into the formation of stars. The images comes from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which has been observing the cosmos for …

PBS NewsHour

But, as science correspondent Miles O’Brien tells us, getting those images, including the newest one released today of dozens of stars being formed, is only part of the important work being done by the $10 billion telescope.