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After becoming the first nation to land a spacecraft near the lunar south pole, India is setting its sights on the sun.

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LRO’s handlers went looking for Luna-25’s grave, using an estimated impact site provided by Roscosmos, the Russian space agency. The LRO team imaged the area with the probe’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera …

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The four Crew-6 astronauts will now depart the International Space Station on Sept. 3, 24 hours later than planned. Comments (0). four astronauts in white and gray spacesuits floating in four different directions with their heads pointed.

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Scientists are using atomic clocks to investigate some of the universe’s greatest mysteries, including the nature of dark matter, in a laboratory. In the process, they say they’re bringing cosmology and astrophysics “down to Earth.”.

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This August belongs to India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission. We’re all just living in it. The two-week mission has just crossed its halfway point, and there’s plenty to moon over. One of the first things the robotic Vikram lander (Sanskrit for “valor”) did …

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Hotfire testing of the new Ariane 6 rocket has been delayed due to problems with ground equipment. Test firing of the huge Ariane 6 rocket’s core stage did not take place as planned on Aug. 29 at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, …

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An Australian company has released images showing how China constructed its Tiangong space station. HEO Robotics specializes in non-Earth imaging, meaning using space-based sensors to acquire images of objects of interest in orbit such as satellites.

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The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a bright stellar nursery studded with dazzling infant stars. Taken using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, the image captures a massive protostar called OH 339.88-1.26 lurking behind star-forming …

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Wangjie Hu, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and colleagues suggest that between 813,000 and 930,000 years ago the population of ancient humans that would eventually give rise to our own species, Homo sapiens, experienced what geneticists call a “ …

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SpaceX is preparing a Falcon 9 rocket for what will be its 60th orbital launch of the year. The Starlink Group 6-13 mission is targeting a liftoff no earlier than 7:52 p.m. EDT (2352 UTC) on Thursday, Aug. 31, with a batch of 22 Starlink V2 Mini …