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China lays out ambitious space plans for next 5 years

In addition, China is building a space telescope called Xuntian, which will launch to the same orbit as the space station and dock with it periodically. Xuntian will launch within the next five years, the ...

Giant 'tree stump' impact crater spotted on Mars

A Mars probe has snapped a peculiar image of the Red Planet's surface that looks like a giant tree stump, rings and all. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's space agency Roscosmos, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's 1st target star is in the Big Dipper. Here's where to see it.

Although the spacecraft is still months away from beginning its official scientific observations, one particularly bright star named HD 84406 will soon be the object of JWST's attention. "Star light, star bright ...

First female director appointed for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

CNN

CNN

Geochemist and space scientist Laurie Leshin will serve as the director for JPL as well as the vice president of the California Institute of Technology, both located in Pasadena. Leshin's appointment also marks the first female vice president of Caltech ...

Los Angeles Times

NASA veteran to become JPL's first woman director

Los Angeles Times

A Caltech alumna and NASA veteran will become the new director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. Laurie Leshin, the president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, will assume the role of director in May, ...

SpaceX cargo ship returns to Earth with spacesuit and science specimens

The splashdown of the Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Panama City, Florida, at 4:05 p.m. EST (2105 GMT) Monday wrapped up SpaceX's 24th cargo mission to the space station under contract to NASA.

Weather delays set up SpaceX for two weekend launches from Cape Canaveral

A blanket of thick clouds over Cape Canaveral Friday forced SpaceX to delay liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket and an Italian radar remote sensing satellite until Saturday, setting up Florida's Space Coast for launches on back to back days this weekend, with ...

See Mars shine very close to the crescent moon in the pre-dawn sky Saturday. Here's where to look.

There's a cool "close encounter" of worlds happening right against the horizon at sunrise Saturday (Jan. 29). Provided you can see low enough between buildings and trees, you can spot the moon and Mars hovering close to each other in the sky, ...

Astronomers detect powerful cosmic object unlike anything they've seen before

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious, flickering object in our galaxy, the Milky Way, that belches enormous amounts of energy toward Earth three times an hour. This strangely powerful object — located about 4,000 light-years from the sun — is ...

Japanese company ispace delays its second private moon mission to 2024

The company's first robotic lunar mission should launch in late 2022 'at the earliest'.