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CBS Pittsburgh

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft caught up with the International Space Station early Tuesday after a 28-hour orbital chase, bringing three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the outpost for a six-month tour of duty.

The New York Times

Two spacecraft have ended up askew on the lunar surface this year. It is easier to tip over in the weaker gravity on the moon than you may imagine. … The Odysseus lander on the moon’s surface, shown at a tilt.

Space.com

Evidence for the first generation of stars to exist in the universe has come to light, thanks to observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The proof is located in one of the most distant galaxies known. The galaxy, designated GN-z11, …

Space.com

On Monday (March 4), scientists announced they’ve managed to measure how much molecular oxygen — the type of oxygen we breathe on Earth — likely exists around Jupiter’s moon Europa. Although researchers have made …

Space.com

Last month, the next four moon astronauts practiced an ocean recovery after a long mission. In the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, the astronauts of Artemis 2 were assisted out of a mockup Orion spacecraft to learn how to exit safely after …

Space.com

This space rock, scientists calculated, will not collide with other space rocks that could worryingly alter its orbit and redirect it toward Earth — at least until the day it swings past our planet, that is.

CNN

In the Sahara Desert’s Erg Chebbi region in Morocco, sands deposited atop the base of the Lala Lallia star dune accumulated rapidly, with most of the growth taking place over the past 1,000 years.

Space.com

Scientists think a process observed in Antarctic ice shelves must be at play on Europa and Enceladus. Comments (0). A sequence of images of Saturn’s moon Enceladus taken by the Cassini mission. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute).

CNN

This composite image shows the progression of a partial solar eclipse over Ross Lake in Northern Cascades National Park in Washington on August 21, 2017. Bill Ingalls/NASA. People outside …

Space.com

NASA Group 23 of astronaut candidates, informally known as “The Flies”, will become eligible for space missions alongside the second astronaut candidate group from the UAE. You can watch their graduation ceremony at NASA’s Johnson …