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'It's so complicated:' Boeing Starliner teams diagnosing helium leak ahead of June 1 astronaut launch

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 4:03pm
NASA and Boeing are still working through "complicated" issues arising from a small Starliner spacecraft helium leak. Launch is June 1, but that's pending a flight readiness review.
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Massive new NASA exoplanet catalog unveils 126 extreme and exotic worlds

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 3:00pm
A new catalog of the masses and widths of 126 new exoplanets showcases the extreme and exotic nature of worlds beyond the solar system.
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Pakistani cubesat snaps images of the moon during China's lunar far side mission (photos)

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 2:00pm
The joint Chinese-Pakistani cubesat mission was released by China's Chang'e 6 lunar far side sample return spacecraft on its way to the moon.
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Sweden's Arctic spaceport moves one step closer to orbital launches

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 1:00pm
Swedish Space Corporation and Perigee Aerospace to launch satellites from Esrange Space Center, Sweden in 2025, with the Blue Whale 1 microlauncher.
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Rocket Lab launches NASA climate change cubesat

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 12:30pm
Rocket Lab launched the first of two satellites for NASA's PREFIRE climate change mission early Saturday morning (May 25).
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The original 'Mr. Eclipse:' How a 19th-century astronomer calculated the dates of over 13,000 eclipses

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 12:00pm
For nearly a century, the 1887 book "Canon of Eclipses" was considered to be the authoritative work on solar and lunar eclipses.
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SpaceX targeting June 5 for 4th test flight of Starship megarocket

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 11:43am
SpaceX aims to launch its huge Starship vehicle for the fourth time ever as early as June 5, provided the necessary regulatory approvals come through.
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Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguise

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 11:00am
Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos.
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Boeing Starliner 1st astronaut flight: Live updates

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:56am
Boeing will launch its first-ever Starliner astronaut mission for NASA as early as this evening (May 6).
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Safety comes 1st for Artemis moon missions despite 'space race' with China, NASA chief says

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:00am
Artemis 2 and Artemis 3, both moon missions with astronauts, were delayed by NASA earlier this year. NASA chief Bill Nelson told a Senate committee the new schedule is on track, but only if safety isn't compromised.
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May full moon 2024: See the Flower Moon blossom in gorgeous photos from around the world

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 9:43am
Explore stunning photos of the May full moon captured by skywatchers from around the world.
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Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes'

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 9:00am
An unusual binary system could be evidence that some massive stars can die quietly, without a supernova explosion.
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How can we protect satellites in Earth-moon space? This new software could help

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 8:00am
New algorithms are being developed to automatically monitor satellites and prevent collisions in cislunar space, the realm between Earth and the moon.
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'The first time I read the script ... I sobbed.' 'Atlas' stars Jennifer Lopez and Sterling K. Brown on AI paranoia and their film's emotional core' (exclusive)

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 6:00am
An interview with Jennifer Lopez and Sterling K. Brown, two of the stars of "Atlas," Netflix's new sci-fi thriller.
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Asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft fires up ion thrusters, starts cruising through space

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 8:00pm
NASA's Psyche mission to a metallic asteroid is now under the power of solar-electric propulsion.
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We could float effortlessly in Pluto's subsurface ocean

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 4:59pm
A subsurface ocean of liquid water may exist beneath Pluto's nitrogen ice, according to an analysis of data collected by NASA's New Horizons probe.
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International Space Development Conference 2024 beams up Star Trek's William Shatner and more in Los Angeles

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 4:31pm
The stars of Star Trek are about to get a taste of real-life space exploration when they beam into the 2024 International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles this weekend.
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China launches test satellite to very low Earth orbit (video)

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 4:00pm
China launched four satellites on Tuesday (May 21) to test out new technologies. The spacecraft went up on the third-ever launch of the Kuaizhou-11 solid rocket.
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SpaceX Dragon joins Mercury and Apollo capsules on display in Chicago

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 3:00pm
A twice-flown SpaceX capsule has debuted at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, next to a Mercury spacecraft and an Apollo command module.
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Satellite data reveals Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier is melting faster than we thought

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 2:13pm
The ICEYE satellite constellation has given researchers a peek beneath the glacier, and it's not looking good.
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