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Fixing the Hubble Space Telescope: A timeline of NASA's shuttle servicing missions
By Josh Dinner published
Spacewalking astronauts repaired and upgraded the famed Hubble Telescope during five missions from 1993 to 2009. Here's a summary of these epic servicing efforts.

Happy Earth Day 2025! Write your name in NASA satellite images and celebrate our planet (video)
By Jeff Spry published
Check out this fun way to embrace Earth Day and NASA's 60 years of planetary observation.

ELVIS in orbit: New 3D microscope arrives at the ISS to study microbes in space
By John Loeffler published
A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions using an innovative imaging technique.

There's liquid on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. But something's missing and scientists are confused
By Julian Dossett published
Scientists have long known that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, hosts rivers and seas of liquid methane. But it's strangely lacking in river deltas, a new study suggests.

It's alive! It's alive! Orion throws back its cover | Space picture of the day for April 22, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
NASA engineers tested the functionality of Orion's forward bay cover, which is the last component of the spacecraft that must be ejected before parachutes deploy to land.

Yousa in big doo-doo now, as Darth Jar Jar makes his way to Fortnite in the new Star Wars collaboration (video)
By Fran Ruiz published
The next Fortnite x Star Wars collaboration will bring new content to Epic Games' hit online multiplayer game, including starfighters, Darth Jar Jar, and a new live event.

Has the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a 'missing' supermassive black hole? (video)
By Robert Lea published
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive black hole in a distant spiral galaxy.

NASA's Lucy probe captures 1st close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing 'strikingly complicated geology'
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.

We took a guided tour of the solar system in Elite Dangerous, and now you can too (interview)
By Ian Stokes published
Learn about the solar system from a pair of real space museum curators in sci-fi game Elite Dangerous, as Abbie MacKinnon and Laura Joy Pieters of the London Science Museum give a guided tour of our home system.
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