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Intuitive Machines' Athena lander on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, launches toward the moon from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, February 26, 2025.
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Texas-based company that made historic soft touchdown on the moon launches high-stakes lunar excursion
The stunning image of Mars featured here shows off the Red Planet’s renowned colour from the viewpoint of ESA’s Rosetta mission as it flew past on 24 February 2007, en route to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It is a composite image created by combining near-infrared, green and near-ultraviolet colour information obtained by the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera. The polar ice cap at the south pole is particularly bright, and wispy clouds are seen most clearly around the planet’s curved horizons.
ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team/MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA, 2007
Scientists say they’ve discovered why Mars is red
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A tiny spacecraft is poised to launch on an unprecedented deep-space mission. The CEO behind it is ‘terrified’
This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system shows the motion of asteroid 2024 YR4 over about one hour, Dec. 27, 2024. (ATLAS / University of Hawaii / NASA via AP)
ATLAS/University of Hawaii/NASA/AP
The riskiest asteroid on record now has near-zero chance of hitting Earth
The Vehicle Assembly Building is shown ahead of the launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on February 26, 2023 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station with four astronauts aboard is expected launch at 1:45 a.m. EST on February 27.
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‘No legitimate rationale’: Lawmakers raise concerns over what NASA won’t say about DOGE
Blue Origin space debris from unsuccessful booster recovery
Judy Fortenberry
Debris from Blue Origin and SpaceX rockets found in Bahamas and Europe
WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 15: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters is seen in Washington D.C., United States on September 15, 2023. (Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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NASA strikes deal over layoffs of recent hires
This image made available by University of Hawaii's asteroid impact alert system shows the motion of asteroid 2024 YR4 over about one hour, Dec. 27, 2024. (ATLAS / University of Hawaii / NASA via AP)
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An asteroid’s chances of hitting Earth keep shifting. Here’s why that is happening
Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to reflect the characteristics of any specific known asteroid.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
This artist’s concept portrays the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (A-star). It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas. The black hole’s gravity bends light from the far side of the disk, making it appear to wrap above and below the black hole.<br />Several flaring hot spots that resemble solar flares, but on a more energetic scale, are seen in the disk. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected both bright flares and fainter flickers coming from Sagittarius A*. The flickers are so rapid they must originate very close to the black hole.
NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)
Astronomers spot flares of light near the black hole at the center of our galaxy
Turtle hatchlings of the endangered loggerhead (Caretta caretta) species head to the ocean after being released by conservationists who protect them from predators in a nursery on El Puerto beach, in the fishing village of La Sabana, La Guaira State, Venezuela, on July 29, 2022. The Ministry of Popular Power for Eco-Socialism (Minec), together with volunteers and naturalists, are developing a sea turtle conservation project aimed at protecting endangered species by collecting their eggs to nest them in a hatchery and releasing them into the sea after birth. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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Earth’s magnetic field triggers a superpower in sea turtles that makes them ‘dance’
In this screengrab from video, astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore attend a NASA press conference about Boeing Starliner on September 13, 2024.
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Weeks from homecoming, Boeing Starliner astronauts want to set the record straight
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 10, 2025. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin to lay off more than 1,000 employees
This artist’s illustration shows the largest radio jet ever found in the early Universe. The jet was first identified using the international Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) Telescope, a network of radio telescopes throughout Europe. Follow-up observations in the near-infrared with the Gemini Near-Infrared Spectrograph (GNIRS), and in the optical with the Hobby Eberly Telescope, were obtained to paint a complete picture of the radio jet and the quasar producing it. GNIRS is mounted on the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have valuable new insights into when the first jets formed in the Universe and how they impacted the evolution of galaxies.
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Largest celestial object of its kind discovered in the distant universe
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Scientists detect record-breaking ‘ghost particle’ in the Mediterranean Sea
NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmoreiss (June 27, 2024) --- NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore prepare orbital plumbing hardware for installation inside the International Space Station’s bathroom, also known as the waste and hygiene compartment, located in the Tranquility module.
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NASA to bring Boeing astronauts home days earlier than expected after SpaceX capsule switch-up