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New Horizons' new map of the galaxy | Space photo of the day for April 30, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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On this day in space! April 30, 2015: MESSENGER spacecraft crashes into Mercury
By Hanneke Weitering Last updated
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John Lithgow to launch into life of Apollo 11 astronaut in new podcast 'BUZZ'
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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NASA engineer Ed Smylie, who led carbon dioxide fix on Apollo 13, dies at 95
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Tank for 1st Artemis touchdown on the moon | Space photo of the day for April 29, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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'I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good': NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains why he seemed so unwell after landing (video)
By Mike Wall Published
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China's Shenzhou 20 astronauts take control of Tiangong space station (video)
By Andrew Jones Published
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Apollo
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John Lithgow to launch into life of Apollo 11 astronaut in new podcast 'BUZZ'
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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NASA engineer Ed Smylie, who led carbon dioxide fix on Apollo 13, dies at 95
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong's gold Omega moonwatch sells for record $2.2M at auction
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Apollo 10, Soyuz capsule among artifacts moving to new space gallery in London
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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'Apollo 1' director surprised by details of ill-fated mission in new documentary
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Tom Hanks at 'Moonwalkers' film premiere predicts getting busy on moon
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Tom Hanks' 'The Moonwalkers' makes US premiere at Space Center Houston
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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What brand of golf ball did Alan Shepard hit off the moon? The world may never know
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Artemis
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Tank for 1st Artemis touchdown on the moon | Space photo of the day for April 29, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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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
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Moon-orbiting Gateway space station's habitat module arrives in the US (photos)
By Julian Dossett Published
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NASA continues stacking its giant Artemis 2 SLS moon rocket (photos)
By Josh Dinner Published
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A gateway to the Gateway around the moon | Space picture of the day for April 16, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Artemis Accords: What are they & which countries are involved?
By Robert Lea Last updated
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Bangladesh becomes 54th nation to join NASA's Artemis Accords for 'peaceful exploration of deep space'
By Josh Dinner Published
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Lunar Quilts capture crafters, astronaut's take on return to the moon
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Moon mission patch beamed onto rocket assembly building: Space photo of the day
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Asteroid & Comet Missions
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
By Victoria Corless Published
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NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st images of its next target: Donaldjohanson
By Keith Cooper Published
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Behold! These gorgeous never-before-seen space images are from a NASA space telescope that should have died long ago
By Conor Feehly Published
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Earth's 'second moon' is just visiting its cosmic parents for Thanksgiving
By Robert Lea Published
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Hera asteroid probe 'waves goodbye' at Earth and moon from 2.3 million miles away (image)
By Elizabeth Howell Published
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NASA's 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth's atmosphere
By Elizabeth Howell Published
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Europe makes moves to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis in 2029
By Andrew Jones Published
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The Psyche mission: A visit to a metal asteroid
By Adam Mann Last updated
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Europe's Hera probe to launch Oct. 7 to inspect asteroid NASA smacked in 2022
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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International Space Station
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'I didn't look too good because I didn't feel too good': NASA astronaut Don Pettit explains why he seemed so unwell after landing (video)
By Mike Wall Published
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SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts put things into perspective | Space photo of the day for April 24, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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ELVIS in orbit: New 3D microscope arrives at the ISS to study microbes in space
By John Loeffler Published
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SpaceX CRS-32 Dragon cargo capsule arrives at the ISS with 6,700 pounds of supplies (video)
By Mike Wall Last updated
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International Space Station: Live updates
By Space.com Staff Last updated
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Don Pettit, NASA's oldest active astronaut at 70, arrives in Houston after 7-month space mission (photo)
By Mike Wall Published
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NASA's oldest active astronaut lands with space station crewmates on his 70th birthday
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Watch NASA astronaut Don Pettit and 2 cosmonauts return to Earth today
By Mike Wall Published
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'Take care of our station. It's our everything.' Russian cosmonaut hands control of ISS over to Japanese astronaut (video)
By Mike Wall Published
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Mars rovers
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Mars orbiter snaps 1st image of Curiosity rover driving on the Red Planet (photo)
By Mike Wall Published
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NASA's Curiosity rover finds major clue that Mars was once habitable
By Victoria Corless Published
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NASA's Perseverance rover hits the Mars rock gold mine: 'It has been all we had hoped for and more'
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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Curiosity rover rolls past 'Devil's Gate' on Mars: Space picture of the day
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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NASA's Perseverance rover watches as 2 Mars dust devils merge into 1 (video)
By Samantha Mathewson Published
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Europe's life-hunting ExoMars rover gets new landing platform to replace canceled Russian craft
By Mike Wall Published
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Strange sphere-studded rock on Mars found by NASA's Perseverance rover
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from an ancient Red Planet lake (images)
By Stefanie Waldek Published
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Perseverance rover's Mars samples show traces of ancient water, but NASA needs them on Earth to seek signs of life
By Victoria Corless Published
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New Horizons
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New Horizons' new map of the galaxy | Space photo of the day for April 30, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of 'termination shock'
By Leonard David Published
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Just how dark is the universe? NASA's New Horizons probe gives us best estimate yet
By Sharmila Kuthunur Published
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Our solar system map may need an update — the Kuiper belt could be way bigger
By Keith Cooper Published
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New Horizons' Alan Stern will fulfill a lifelong dream on Virgin Galactic spaceflight this week
By Nola Taylor Tillman Published
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NASA extends New Horizons mission through late 2020s
By Mike Wall Published
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NASA's New Horizons mission faces an uncertain future (op-ed)
By Rod Pyle Published
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NASA's New Horizons will investigate Uranus from the rear (Neptune, too). Here's how you can help
By Keith Cooper Published
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NASA may shift New Horizons Pluto probe to sun-studying mission
By Josh Dinner Published
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Parker Solar Probe
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Parker Solar Probe: First spacecraft to 'touch' the sun
By Daisy Dobrijevic Last updated
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe smashes record for fastest human-made object
By Tia Ghose Published
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe flies through major coronal mass ejection — and survives to tell the tale
By Rahul Rao Published
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Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter team up to tackle 65-year-old sun mystery
By Robert Lea Published
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe to make closest flyby of Venus on Aug. 21
By Monisha Ravisetti Published
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe starts summer with 16th swoop by the sun
By Josh Dinner Published
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NASA's sun-kissing Parker Solar Probe finds source of 'fast' solar wind
By Robert Lea Published
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NASA selects solar physicist Nicola Fox as its new science chief
By Robert Lea Published
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe makes its 15th close flyby of the sun this St. Patrick's Day
By Robert Lea Published
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Space Shuttle
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On this day in space! April 30, 2015: MESSENGER spacecraft crashes into Mercury
By Hanneke Weitering Last updated
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Texas Senators: Move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Houston
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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The most memorable space shuttle missions
By Clara Moskowitz Last updated
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Endeavour: NASA's youngest space shuttle
By Tariq Malik Last updated
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Buran: The Soviet space shuttle that flew just once
By Tariq Malik Last updated
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Full-size mock space shuttle makes first move towards Downey display
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Signed steel beams 'top off' L.A. home for space shuttle Endeavour
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Mock shuttle Pathfinder restored atop its stack at Alabama rocket center (photos)
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Endeavour lifted onto space shuttle stack for California Science Center exhibit (video)
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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Voyager
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NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles
By Robert Lea Published
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Ed Stone, who led NASA's iconic Voyager project for 50 years, dies at 88
By Mike Wall Published
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NASA's Voyager 1 glitch has scientists sad yet hopeful: 'Voyager 2 is still going strong'
By Monisha Ravisetti Published
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NASA's interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft isn't doing so well — here's what we know
By Monisha Ravisetti Published
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NASA's Voyager 1 probe in interstellar space can't phone home (again) due to glitch
By Josh Dinner Published
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NASA's interstellar Voyager probes get software updates beamed from 12 billion miles away
By Rahul Rao Published
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NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft extends its interstellar science mission for 3 more years
By Elizabeth Howell Published
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NASA's Voyager project scientist Ed Stone retires after 50 years
By Mike Wall Published
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Mysterious dust ring around Uranus spotted in rediscovered Voyager 2 data
By Meghan Bartels Published
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China's Shenzhou 20 astronauts take control of Tiangong space station (video)
By Andrew Jones Published
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NASA's Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan
By Andrew Jones Published
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SpaceX Crew-11 astronauts put things into perspective | Space photo of the day for April 24, 2025
By Robert Z. Pearlman Published
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