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Astronauts collect blood aboard the ISS | Space photo of the day for July 21, 2025

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:30am
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station collect blood samples as part of a project to study human health in space.
Categories: Astronomy

What are these strange swirls around an infant star? 'We may be watching a planet come into existence in real time'

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:00am
Astronomers have discovered a baby exoplanet "spiral architect" carving complex swirls into a disk of gas and dust around the young star HD 135344B.
Categories: Astronomy

Earth will spin faster today to create 2nd-shortest day in history

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 6:00am
Our planet has been rotating at its fastest since records began in 1973.
Categories: Astronomy

South Korea wants to build a moon base by 2045

Sun, 07/20/2025 - 12:00pm
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.
Categories: Astronomy

This wild bioplastic made of algae just aced a Mars pressure test. Can astronauts use it to build on the Red Planet?

Sun, 07/20/2025 - 11:00am
Scientists have grown algae in bioplastic habitats under Mars-like conditions, a step that could bring long-term space colonization closer to reality.
Categories: Astronomy

Discover where the Eagle might have landed: How to find Apollo 11's backup sites on the moon

Sun, 07/20/2025 - 9:00am
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'

Sun, 07/20/2025 - 6:00am
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

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 11:00am
The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.
Categories: Astronomy

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day Mars Died

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 10:20am
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.
Categories: Astronomy

10 unique tours and experiences for the 2027 'eclipse of the century'

Sat, 07/19/2025 - 9:00am
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.
Categories: Astronomy