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The first Starliner crew is in quarantine ahead of their scheduled May 6 launch. The two NASA astronauts to fly aboard Boeing Starliner, Barry “Butch” Wilmore and pilot Suni Williams, entered standard pre-flight quarantine on Tuesday (April 22) at …

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An artist’s illustration depicts Voyager 1 as it travels through interstellar space, or the space between stars. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory …

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When NASA’s New Horizons mission flew past Pluto in 2015, it gave humanity our first glimpse of a colossal depression on the isolated world. It’s named Sputnik Planitia. Comparable in size to the country of Mexico and dominating one of Pluto’s …

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a square made of four triangles floats above earth with the sun behind. An illustration of NASA’s upcoming ACS3 solar sail in orbit above Earth’s surface. (Image credit: …

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The satellite, which launched in April 2006, conducted the first-ever global survey of cloud properties. Comments (0). illustration of a spacecraft in orbit around earth. An artist’s concept shows NASA’s CloudSat spacecraft in orbit above Earth.

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A graphic shows what a lava lake, called Loki Patera, may look like on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. JPLraw. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory …

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SpaceX will send yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites skyward today (April 23), if all goes according to plan. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force …

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NASA has added another country to its growing list of international partners committed to responsible moon exploration. On Friday (April 19), Slovenia signed NASA’s Artemis Accords, becoming the 39th country to affirm their cooperation in future space …

The Washington Post

A dentist was visiting his parents’ newly renovated home in Europe when he noticed something odd: One of the floor tiles in a corridor leading to a terrace held what looked like a human mandible, sliced through at an angle, including a cross section of …

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The sun put on quite the show this morning (April 23), blasting out not one, not two, but four solar flares in near-perfect harmony. And NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught it on camera. Solar flares are explosions from the sun’s …