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CBS News

An Atlas 5 rocket carrying astronauts for the first time in six decades was primed for blastoff Monday night to boost Boeing’s long-delayed Starliner crew ferry ship into orbit for its first piloted test flight to the International Space Station.

Space.com

“Venus has 100,000 times less water than the Earth, even though it’s basically the same size and mass.” Comments (0). Large beige sphere surrounded by golden spheres and pairs of purple and blue spheres. An illustration shows water being lost to space …

Space.com

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — When Boeing’s Starliner capsule carries two astronauts to space tonight (May 6), at least 100 people in Mission Control will be on hand for support and guidance. Tonight’s mission, known as Crew Flight Test (CFT), …

Space.com

Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronaut crew Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be the first NASA astronauts and humans aboard Starliner, as well as the Atlas V rocket. Get the Space …

Space.com

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured outbursts, jets and rivers of plasma beneath the arch of a glowing coronal loop. Comments (0). Click here for more Space.com videos… Underneath the arch of a huge coronal loop, a wealth of exotic solar phenomena …

NPR

There’s a moon rock in the lobby of NASA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. Visitors are urged to rub their fingers over its smooth, worn surface to connect with one of the greatest achievements in human history: the Apollo missions that landed 12 …

Space.com

After 25 years of drifting undetected in space, an experimental satellite that launched in 1974 has been found using tracking data from the U.S. Space Force. The Infra-Red Calibration Balloon (S73- …

Space.com

A recently detected sunspot region continues its active pattern with yet another powerful solar flare reported early Monday morning. The X4.5 solar flare peaked at 2:35 a.m. EST (0635 GMT) on May 6. Following the flare, parts of some of Earth’s sunlit …

BBC News

Two Nasa astronauts are due to head for the International Space Station aboard a new spacecraft. Boeing’s Starliner will blast off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, in its first crewed test flight. The mission has been delayed for several years because …

Reuters

While Boeing has struggled, SpaceX has become a dependable taxi to orbit for NASA, which is backing a new generation of privately built spacecraft that can ferry its astronauts and other customers to the ISS and, under the space agency’s more ambitious …