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NASA astronaut comes home to Houston after record-setting 355-day space mission

China's Zhurong Mars rover has given us nice, up-close looks at some of the hardware that helped it land safely on the Red Planet two months ago.

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Here's how a French astronaut celebrated Bastille Day 2021 in space

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet pulled out all the stops in orbit for a Bastille Day on the International Space Station.

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New Shepard: Rocket for space tourism

New Shepard is a rocket manufactured by Blue Origin for space tourism. It is designed to take up to six passengers into suborbital space inside of a crew capsule.

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Jeff Bezos donates $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution ahead of Blue Origin launch

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the spaceflight company Blue Origin, will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian, the Institution announced Wednesday (July 14).

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Cruise by Jupiter and its giant moon Ganymede in this gorgeous Juno flyby video

A dazzling new animation puts you aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during its epic flybys last month of Jupiter and the huge moon Ganymede.

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The smoke from wildfires in Oregon and beyond is covering vast areas of US, satellites show

It's summer in the Northern Hemisphere — and that means it's fire season. Satellites are pitching in to monitor dozens of blazes nationwide.

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Jeff Bezos: Blue Origin and Amazon founder

Jeff Bezos, who made his fortune as the founder of Amazon also created Blue Origin, a space company focused on bringing humans into suborbit.

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In George RR Martin's new 'Joker Moon,' space history is a 'Wild Card'

What do the 52 cards in a standard deck and 52 years since the first moon landing have in common with "A Game of Thrones" author George R.R. Martin? A new book in the "Wild Cards" anthology series. "Joker Moon" refocuses the story to outer space.

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Fully stacked Starship caps busy week at SpaceX’s Texas rocket yard

Packed with puzzles, activities and videos, each edition of Future Genius takes you on an epic journey of STEAM discovery — from the solar system to Ancient Greece.

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Gearing up for third Sentinel-2 satellite

An anonymous auction winner who paid $28 million for the opportunity will fly in the future due to a scheduling conflict.

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Svetlana Savitskaya: Second woman in space, 1st female spacewalker

Surprisingly, one of the main criteria (besides the years of astronaut training) is body size.

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Astronomers spot first activity on giant megacomet beyond Saturn

Spotting the first signs of activity on a record-setting megacomet came down to a time-zone advantage.

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Can artificial intelligence help scientists spot gravitational waves?

Scientists hunting for elusive gravitational waves across the universe may be able to supercharge their discoveries with a new tool: artificial intelligence.

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City-sized asteroids smacked ancient Earth 10 times more often than thought

Asteroids as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, or even bigger, used to strike ancient Earth ten times more often than previously believed, according to a new study.

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Hubble trouble is latest glitch in space telescope's long and storied history

For the past month, our most beloved eye on the universe has been closed, blinded by a computer glitch that NASA experts are still working to solve.

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Mount Etna is 100 feet taller than it was 6 months ago

Blue Origin's nonprofit Club for the Future is donating $1 million apiece to 19 space organizations. The money was raised by selling a seat on Blue Origin's upcoming first crewed spaceflight.

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NASA astronauts on spacewalk prep space station for new solar array

Engineers have identified the possible cause of the Hubble Space Telescope's computer problems, and they plan to start implementing a fix on Thursday (July 15).

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It's rolling! NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission begins journey to the launch pad

7-Eleven is sending its Slurpee drink "on a private spaceflight" in celebration of its 94th year in business, and you can help decide one of the key factors — or rather, flavors — of the launch.

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Hints of intriguing diversity seen in super-energetic 'fast radio bursts'

Star Trek: Discovery: Season Three"is arriving on Blu-ray, DVD, and Limited Edition Steelbook on July 20 and here's a closer peek into its adventurous story arc.

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2 SpaceX astronaut launches to the space station delayed by a few days

Astronomers detected a rare teardrop-shaped star that is being ripped apart by an invisible white dwarf, pushing the pair toward an inevitable supernova explosion.

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In photos: Virgin Galactic's 1st fully crewed spaceflight with billionaire Richard Branson

The space tourism company Virgin Galactic successfully launched its founder Richard Branson and five other crewmembers into suborbital space on July 11, 2021 in a milestone mission that marked the first fully crewed flight of its VSS Unity space plane. 

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