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Astronauts collect blood aboard the ISS | Space photo of the day for July 21, 2025
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station collect blood samples as part of a project to study human health in space.
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What are these strange swirls around an infant star? 'We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time'
Astronomers have discovered a baby exoplanet "spiral architect" carving complex swirls into a disk of gas and dust around the young star HD 135344B.
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Earth will spin faster today to create 2nd-shortest day in history
Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.
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South Korea wants to build a moon base by 2045
South Korea just laid out its long-term space exploration road map, which features the planned construction of a moon base two decades from now.
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This wild bioplastic made of algae just aced a Mars pressure test. Can astronauts use it to build on the Red Planet?
Scientists have grown algae in bioplastic habitats under Mars-like conditions, a step that could bring long-term space colonization closer to reality.
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Discover where the Eagle might have landed: How to find Apollo 11's backup sites on the moon
Find the locations of the five landing zones considered as the setting for humanity's first steps on another world.
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope could discover 100,000 new cosmic explosions: 'We're definitely expecting the unexpected'
Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these explosions and many more powerful and violent cosmic events.
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See the moon cross the Pleiades for the last time this year on July 20
The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day Mars Died
On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by JPL Chief Engineer Emeritus Rob Manning to look back at the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later.
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10 unique tours and experiences for the 2027 'eclipse of the century'
From "Star Wars" film sets to baboons in Saudi Arabia, here's how to experience the "eclipse of the century" in style on Aug. 2, 2027.
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