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The STEREO-A spacecraft will pass between Earth and the sun this weekend, getting the chance to team up with other NASA missions.

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SEATTLE — Much like the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors arming your home, a shoebox-sized device will constantly monitor the air astronauts breathe during NASA’s crewed Artemis missions to the moon. The machine’s purpose is to provide real-time …

The New York Times

For the first time in nearly half a century, Russia has launched a spacecraft that is headed to the moon. On Friday morning at a spaceport in the far eastern part of Russia, a rocket lifted Luna-25, a robotic lander of moderate size, to Earth orbit.

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Since 2021, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has been treading impressively close to the sun in order to capture unprecedented data about our home star. In fact, the record-breaking spacecraft completed its closest approach yet to the blazing ball of plasma …

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The European Space Agency (ESA) is going to gaze inside of an asteroid with radar for the first time. The radar component of a small satellite, called a CubeSat, has been delivered to ESA for integration with a spacecraft being sent to study the …

BBC News

Two spacecraft – one built by India and the other by Russia – are hurtling on missions towards our Moon by very different routes. But does it matter which touches down first? R. Right now, a mini space race is afoot. Two spacecraft, one Russian and the …

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If all goes to plan, the Mars Ascent Vehicle will be the first rocket ever to launch on another planet. Comments (0). NASA has test-fired rocket motors as part of the development of an ascent vehicle designed to launch samples off the Red Planet.

BBC News

Remains of a primitive human species known as Homo erectus have been found in Europe dating back to 1.4 million years ago. By Pallab Ghosh. Science correspondent.

CNN

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe Earendel, the most distant star ever detected. Earendel is so distant that the starlight glimpsed by the Webb telescope was emitted within the first billion years of …

Scientific American

Even at its peak, showers of meteors such as the Perseids will only produce perhaps one shooting star per minute, and even half that number is considered a decent show. So don’t expect anything like meteor showers in the movies, where shooting stars streak …