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SpaceX launches private-sector lunar lander on trail-blazing flight to the moon

It was SpaceX's second flight in less than eight hours, following launch of six U.S. Space Force missile detection and tracking satellites earlier in the day, and the third launch to orbit worldwide counting a Russian space station cargo ship that took off ...

This astronaut took 5 spacewalks. Now, he's helping make spacesuits for future ISS crews (exclusive)

The next generation of spacesuits for astronauts just went parabolic. Collins Aerospace tested its new spacesuit design, built for International Space Station spacewalks, on a parabolic flight that simulated microgravity conditions.

SETI searches for alien signals synchronized with supernova 1987A

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a yellow oval is intersected by the outline of a darker brown/yellow circle. The SETI ellipsoid is an ellipse in space with Earth at one foci and SN 1987A at the ...

'Odd couple' kissing stars created by unromantic cannibalistic feeding dance

The discovery reveals the origins of rapidly spinning "Be" stars and their tiny subdwarf companions. Valentine's Day won't be all hearts and flowers for some "kissing stars". An illustration of a glowing blue orb surrounded by a hazy blue disk.

Fire but no brimstone: Where is the universe's missing sulfur?

Astronomers may have solved the mystery of why dead stars' death shrouds seem to lack sulfur, an element once known as "brimstone" and associated with the expression "fire and brimstone" in the Bible. Based on theory, a substantial amount of sulfur ...

'Odie' lunar lander set to launch, aiming for historic US moon mission

CNN

CNN

The Odysseus lunar lander, encapsulated within the nose cone of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, sits on the launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of the IM-1 mission's launch attempt.

Watch NASA unfurl basketball-court-sized solar sail for deep space propulsion (video)

NASA has reached a significant technological milestone with progress on an experimental form of spacecraft propulsion which utilizes solar radiation. The space agency successfully deployed one of four identical quadrants of a huge solar sail at Redwire ...

Water found on the surface of an asteroid for the 1st time ever

Scientists studied four silicate-rich asteroids using data gathered by the now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a telescope-outfitted plane operated by NASA and the German Aerospace Center.

Water detected on surface of asteroids for first time, thanks to defunct NASA mission

Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute were able to use data from the retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a joint project between NASA scientists and the German Space Agency at DLR, to discover the water molecules, ...

Watch Russia launch a Valentine's Day Progress supply ship to the ISS tonight with this free livestream

Russia will launch the robotic Progress 87 cargo ship on a Valentine's Day delivery mission to the International Space Station tonight (Feb. 14), and you can watch the action live online. The Progress 87 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off atop a Soyuz ...