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Space.com

An Antares rocket will launch to the International Space Station today, and you can watch the action live. The 19th commercial resupply service mission from Northrop Grumman (NG-19) will launch a batch of cargo, provisions and science experiments to …

Spaceflight Now

NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and the other members of the Crew-7 mission train at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, in the runup to launching to the International Space Station. Image: SpaceX.

Space.com

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft is alone drifting through interstellar space after a communications breakdown left it unable to receive commands or transmit data back to Earth. Communications with Voyager 2, which is currently around 12.4 billion miles …

CNN

The Euclid space observatory’s Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer instrument captured a test image of stars and galaxies in infrared light. ESA/Euclid Consortium/NASA.

CNN

Big, bright lunar displays will bookend August as the moon nears its closest point to Earth. When the moon reaches this position in its orbit while also appearing full, the result is a supermoon — and there will be two this month.

CNN

“We enlisted the help of the (Deep Space Network) and Radio Science groups to help to see if we could hear a signal from Voyager 2,” said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “This was …

Space.com

A new study lays out the theoretical plan of tethering a giant solar shield to a captured space rock. Potentially, this contraption could protect Earth from the sun. Comments (0). An illustration of a blue, triangular “umbrella” attached to an asteroid …

CBS News

A trailblazing satellite has returned to Earth after a complicated assisted crash that marked the first of its kind in history, the European Space Agency announced last week. The satellite, named Aeolus like the ruler of winds in Greek mythology, …

Symmetry magazine

New results from a neutrino telescope and a gravitational-wave observatory show how astronomers use different forms of messengers to study the cosmos. Naoko Kurahashi Neilson was on a Zoom call when she saw it for the first time.

Space.com

The first of two supermoons this month, The Full Sturgeon Moon, rises today (Aug. 1). It’ll be followed by the Full Blue Moon, which rises on Aug. 30. Both are considered supermoons because they’re full moons that occur when the moon reaches its …