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The last voyage of NASA's space shuttle: Looking back at Atlantis' final mission 10 years later

STS-135 mission specialist Rex Walheim had volunteered to be on "any of the last three flights," he recalled in NASA's 10th anniversary event, which was livestreamed on NASA TV. So imagine his disappointment ...

Billionaires and Space — The Right Race (op-ed)

Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Galactic, will launch on the company's first fully ...

Former NASA astronaut's return to space on private Axiom flight will be 'a dream come true' (exclusive)

After retiring from NASA in 2012, he went on to explore the commercial spaceflight sector, more recently becoming the vice president of business development for the Houston-based spaceflight company Axiom Space.

SpaceX cargo capsule splashes down in Gulf of Mexico

Once the Dragon capsule is on the deck of the recovery ship, teams will open the hatch and retrieve time-sensitive research specimens for delivery by helicopter to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where scientists will begin analyzing the experiments.

Venus and the moon pass a fading Mars in the evening sky this weekend

If there were ever a "maverick" among the naked eye planets, that title would certainly go to Mars. Just nine months ago, Mars came to within 38.8 million miles (62.43 million kilometers) of Earth, the closest it had been to us since August 2003, and it will not be ...

Mystery of Jupiter's powerful X-ray auroras finally solved

These dancing lights are produced when energetic particles from the sun or other celestial bodies slam into a planet's magnetosphere — the area controlled by a world's magnetic field — and flow down its magnetic field lines to collide with molecules in its ...

Dragon cargo ship departs space station and heads for Earth

A SpaceX cargo capsule undocked from the International Space Station Thursday and headed for splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico after a two-day delay to wait for Tropical Storm Elsa to clear the area. Flying in ...

Earth-observing satellite startup Planet is going public

This photo, captured by one of Planet's Dove Earth-imaging cubesats on March 25, 2021, shows the container ship Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal (top left) and the queue of ships waiting to enter the canal from the Red Sea. (Image credit: Planet Labs, Inc.).

Stephen Colbert will host Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Unity launch on Sunday

Richard Branson's spaceflight is shaping up to be quite a star-studded affair. The billionaire entrepreneur is scheduled to fly to suborbital space aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo vehicle on Sunday (July 11). You can watch webcast coverage ...

Possible Signs of Alien Microbial Life? Cassini Reveals Mysterious Methane in Plumes of Saturn's Moon Enceladus

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The cosmic universe is full of peculiar worlds! If you travel a whopping 1.27 billion km in the right direction, you will come across a giant icy world known as Enceladus—the sixth largest-known moon of planet Saturn. This distant ocean world is a fascinating ...