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A new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars. Located just over 5000 light-years from Earth, the duo is collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140. Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) met, compressing the gas and forming dust. The stars’ orbits bring them together about once every eight years; like the rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time.

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The first person to pay his way into space has now bought two tickets to the moon. Dennis Tito revealed that he and his wife have reserved seats on a SpaceX Starship circumlunar flight.

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The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission arrives at its next close approach to the Sun on 12 October 2022 at 19:12 UTC (21:12 CEST). This sequence of images shows the progress of the ESA/NASA spacecraft as it heads inwards on its voyage of discovery. The sequence begins on 20 September and finishes on 10 October.

As landing on Earth draws near, a potential moonwalker said International Space Station research "will enable us to go further into the solar system."

In a new paper, scientists outline how we can look for clues any alien visitors to our solar system may have left behind.

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At Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, a test model of the Ariane 6’s central core has been assembled for the first time. Ariane 6 is the first Ariane rocket to be assembled horizontally, which is simpler and less costly than more traditional vertical assembly. One of the P120C boosters can be seen from different angles during installation, before the rocket’s central core is moved to its launchpad and placed upright in its mobile gantry. With the central core and boosters in place, combined tests validate compatibility between all components of the complete launch system.

The kinetic impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft with the Dimorphos asteroid around its larger Didymos parent body has succeeded in shifting its orbit, meaning humankind’s first planetary defence test has been successful. Observations are continuing of the debris plume caused by the collision for as long as possible, as the asteroid system gradually recedes from Earth.

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The fifth satellite in Russia's GLONASS-K series launched atop a Soyuz rocket late Sunday night (Oct. 9).

The first SpaceX Falcon Heavy flight in more than three years is set to take place at the end of October, carrying a national security mission for the U.S. Space Force.

SpaceX's Crew-4 astronauts are scheduled to leave the International Space Station Wednesday (Oct. 12) at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT). Watch it live here.

A catalog of rock types that could be found on exoplanets covered in lava will aid researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope in characterizing these molten worlds.

NASA's Perseverance rover recently grabbed its 14th Red Planet rock sample but is having trouble sealing it up for eventual shipment to Earth.

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is returning to Earth alongside NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, marking the end of her second mission to the International Space Station, Minerva. Watch Crew-4's return live on ESAwebTV2 from 23:00 CEST (22:00 BST) 12 October.

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Certain estimates of Antarctica’s total contribution to sea-level rise may be over, or even underestimated, after researchers detected a previously unknown source of ice loss variability. In a new paper published in The Cryosphere, researchers using Copernicus Sentinel-1 data, found that glaciers feeding the George VI Ice Shelf speed up by approximately 15% during the Antarctic summer. This is the first time that such seasonal cycles have been detected on land ice flowing into ice shelves in Antarctica.

A Japanese Epsilon rocket failed tonight (Oct. 11) during its sixth-ever mission, a launch that aimed to loft a technology-demonstrating satellite.