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Boeing Starliner spacecraft 'go' for 1st astronaut launch on May 6, NASA says

6 hours 32 min ago
Two NASA astronauts, their spacecraft and rocket have been cleared for a historic 1st flight aboard Boeing's Starliner. Launch will take place no earlier than May 6.
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Long ago, a lake on Mars might have been sprawling with microbes

6 hours 54 min ago
The presence of manganese oxide on Mars has positive implications in the search for life beyond Earth.
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Celebrate Lego Star Wars Day with 20% off the Millennium Falcon

7 hours 42 min ago
The 1351-piece Lego Millennium Falcon is now 20% off on Amazon and it can be delivered on Star Wars Day, so you can celebrate in style.
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The 2024 Humans to Mars Summit is happening next week

7 hours 54 min ago
The annual Humans to Mars Summit takes place next week, with talks focusing on establishing a sustainable and permanent human presence on the Red Planet by the mid-2030s.
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Did the James Webb Space Telescope really find life beyond Earth? Scientists aren't so sure

8 hours 24 min ago
Despite excitement last year, the James Webb Space Telescope probably hasn't detected life on a distant super-Earth exoplanet with life signs detected on potential ocean world K2-18 b likely premature.
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Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 100 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend

8 hours 54 min ago
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaks on May 5, and this year looks favorable for a good light show put on by bits of Halley's Comet as they burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
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'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' returns to theaters for its 25th anniversary today

9 hours 54 min ago
This special limited engagement of 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' beginning on May 3 includes an early look at the upcoming Disney+ series 'The Acolyte.'
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Citizen scientists find remarkable exoplanet, name it after Harry Potter character

10 hours 54 min ago
Citizen scientists have spotted a truly remarkable planet in a binary system's habitable zone. They gave a Harry Potter-inspired nickname.
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China launches Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to moon's far side (video)

11 hours 8 min ago
China continued its run of moon missions today (May 3), launching its bold Chang'e 6 sample-return effort to the lunar far side.
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2 colossal solar flares explode from the sun and Earth is in the firing line (video)

11 hours 27 min ago
Newly emerged sunspot fires off X-class and an M-class solar flares in relatively quick succession. Watch the striking video and read about the possible effects here.
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Solar eclipse 2024: Live updates

13 hours 26 min ago
Stay up-to-date with the latest news on the upcoming solar eclipses, including the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024.
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Boeing drone dressed as 'Star Wars' X-wing lands at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

13 hours 53 min ago
A Boeing CV2 Cargo Air Vehicle dressed like a "Star Wars" X-wing fighter has been donated to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
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Boeing's Starliner is ready to fly astronauts after years of delay. Here's what took so long.

14 hours 54 min ago
Boeing's Starliner is finally ready to fly astronauts, after several years of delay. The capsule's designers put the extra time to good use, NASA and Boeing representatives say.
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Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 4:00pm
NASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.
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Astronauts on the moon could stay fit by running in a Wheel of Death

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 3:18pm
Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.
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Watch live: China launching Chang'e 6 mission to far side of the moon early May 3 (video)

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 2:46pm
China's Chang'e 6 sample return mission to the moon's far side is scheduled to launch early Friday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live.
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Watch ULA assemble Atlas V rocket ahead of Boeing Starliner astronaut test flight (video)

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 1:00pm
United Launch Alliance's new video highlight's how the Atlas V launch vehicle for Boeing's Starliner was stacked and mated to the spacecraft.
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NASA's Hubble Telescope is back in action — but its TESS exoplanet hunter may now be in trouble

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 12:37pm
Both the Hubble Telescope and TESS exoplanet hunter went into safe mode on April 23. Hubble is back on, but TESS remains off.
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NASA selects Rocket Lab for back-to-back climate change research launches

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 12:00pm
NASA's PREFIRE mission will deploy a pair of satellites from twin launches aboard Rocket Lab's Electron rockets that will contribute to climate change studies in the Arctic and Antarctica.
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites in 2nd half of spaceflight doubleheader (video)

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:30am
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (May 2), on the second half of a planned spaceflight doubleheader.
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