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CNN

Boeing’s Starliner capsule, which will carry two NASA astronauts during the Crew Test Flight, sits atop an Atlas V rocket at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday. John Raoux/AP.

Space.com

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is poised for its long-awaited first crewed launch. That liftoff, which will kick off the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission to the International Space Station (ISS), is set for 12:25 p.m. EDT (1625 GMT) …

Space.com

Another day, another Starlink launch. SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink satellites to orbit late Friday (May 31). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of the broadband craft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:37 p.m. EDT …

CNN

Scientists say a lunar time scale is needed before astronauts return to the moon, seen in the sky in the evening hours in Kars, Turkey, on May 18. Omer Tarsuslu/Anadolu/ …

CNN

Officially known as Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, the celestial object made its closest pass of the sun on April 21, coming within 74.4 million miles (119.7 million kilometers) of our star.

Space.com

The hyperactive sunspot region responsible for May’s incredible auroras has done it again, firing off not one but two X-class solar flares in less than 12 hours. The first X-class solar flare peaked at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203GMT) on Friday (May 31), …

Space.com

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and its Atlas V rocket were less than 4 minutes away from launching two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:25 p.m. EDT (1625 GMT) when the abort occurred …

BBC News

The Chang’e 6 mission aims to collect precious rock and soil from this region for the first time in history. The probe could extract some of the Moon’s oldest rocks from a huge crater on its …

Phys.Org

In the small fishing village where I grew up, we didn’t have much. But we helped our neighbors, raised our children to respect the sea, and embraced an inclusive scientific methodology with a cross section of sex, race and gender among study …

The Washington Post

After years of setbacks and delays, Boeing is set to launch its Starliner spacecraft with a pair of NASA astronauts on board in a test flight for the space agency to the International Space Station. The mission was supposed to launch last month, …