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Apollo-Soyuz astronaut reflects on changing US-Russia relations in space

Almost 50 years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, American astronauts flew to space alongside cosmonauts as part of NASA's first attempt to forge a partnership between the U.S. and Russia in space.

Using tiny satellites to monitor harmful gases from space (op-ed)

Steve Love is a physicist and remote sensing instrumentation scientist in the Space and Remote Sensing group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This effort was made possible through an award from NASA's Earth Science Technology Office's In-Space ...

Dust cloud the size of a star formed by massive asteroids colliding

Data from a retired NASA space telescope revealed the disaster scene left behind by a cosmic collision. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a debris cloud's size suggests that the dust was formed when two bodies the size of dwarf planets ...

'Chaos' regions of Jupiter's icy moon Europa may increase chance for life

In fact, oxygen levels in Europa's subsurface oceans might be as high as those of Earth's oceans, the new study suggests, giving credence to arguments about habitability of the icy moon.

Hubble Space Telescope spots most distant single star ever seen

The most distant single star seen yet dates back to less than 1 billion years after the universe's birth in the Big Bang, and may shed light on the earliest stars in the cosmos, a new study finds. The scientists nicknamed the star "Earendel," from an ...

China's first modified Long March 6 rocket aces debut launch (video)

A new type of Chinese rocket just aced its debut mission. A Long March 6 rocket featuring four solid strap-on boosters successfully launched two satellites to orbit on Tuesday (March 29), according to media reports. "The modified rocket is China's ...

Earth braces for solar storm, potential aurora displays

A powerful solar storm is set to hit Earth on Thursday (March 31) with spectacular aurora displays accompanying it after the sun fired nearly 20 flares from a single sunspot in just two days. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Is Pluto Alive? Scientists Detect Two Huge Ice Volcanoes on the Dwarf Planet Suggesting Recent Interior Activity

Pluto's image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 13, 2015, at a distance of 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometres) from the planet. (NASA/APL/SwRI). Advertisement. Pluto has always intrigued astronomers. Whether it's a planet or not is now a ...

Meet Earendel: Hubble Telescope Spots the Farthest Star Ever Seen, Located 12.9 Billion Light-Years Away!

Ever since humanity began peering into space, astronomers have dreamt of unlocking the deepest mysteries and gazing at the farthest celestial bodies in our universe. Now, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has helped us get closer to the latter aspiration, ...

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ESA supports Indian lunar and solar missions

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The first missions to benefit from this new support agreement will enable India look to the sun and the moon with the Aditya-L1 solar observatory and Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and rover, both due to launch in 2022 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in ...