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Crew Dragon streaks through the midnight sky as seen from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Image: Will Robinson-Smith/Spaceflight Now. Blazing like a shooting star as it streaked high above northern Florida, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carried four …

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Four astronauts are back on Earth, having each completed their first long-duration spaceflight on the International Space Station (ISS). Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg of NASA, Sultan AlNeyadi of the UAE (United Arab Emirates) and Andrey …

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On Aug. 27, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen scripted history when he became the first European to pilot the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). Over the next six months, Mogensen will carry out over 30 research …

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India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar rover and lander have completed their primary mission goals and are now preparing for the upcoming two-week lunar night. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) hopes the two iconic vehicles might wake up when the sun …

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Either way, the star or white dwarf is blown to smithereens, its guts strewn across space to form a supernova remnant. This debris contains many heavy elements formed in the violence of the …

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The moon will meet up with Jupiter tonight, making a close approach to the solar system’s largest planet in the night sky. From New York City, the 19-day-old moon and …

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Astronomers have found a new way to detect one of the oldest features of our universe. These Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, or BAO, are subtle wrinkles that flowed through cosmic matter during the first 380,000 years of the universe’s existence.

CNN

Four astronauts have returned home from a six-month stay on the International Space Station, making a splashdown landing aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule off the coast of Florida on Monday. The astronauts, members …

The New York Times

A warming climate could make cities even less hospitable to wild mammals, according to new research. Share full article.

PBS NewsHour

With more countries landing on the Moon, people back on Earth will have to think about what happens to all the landers, waste and miscellaneous debris left on the lunar surface and in orbit. I’ …