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Image: A robotic helping hand at the ISS
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic ...
Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2025
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Chinese astronauts return from space station after delay blamed on space debris damage
Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday after more than a week's delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris.
Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2025
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Twin Mars orbiters launched on New Glenn rocket to study Martian atmosphere
Blue Origin launched its huge New Glenn rocket Thursday with a pair of NASA spacecraft destined for Mars.
Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2025
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When space junk comes home
Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something extraordinary behind his warehouse in Poland: a charred metal tank, roughly 1.5 meters across. It had crashed from space during the night, part of a SpaceX ...
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2025
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Let's go on an ESCAPADE: NASA's small, low-cost orbiters will examine Mars' atmosphere
Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That's the future that NASA's ESCAPADE, or escape and plasma acceleration and dynamics explorers, mission will help unleash: one where ...
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2025
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Space debris struck a Chinese spacecraft. How the incident could be a wake-up call for international collaboration
China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early November 2025.
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2025
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It's time to give the moon its own time
Tracking time is one of those things that seems easy, until you really start to get into the details of what time actually is. We define a second as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a cesium atom. However, according to Einstein's ...
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2025
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Blue Origin set for space launch after repeated delays
Third time's the charm? Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin will try once again Thursday to launch its New Glenn Rocket.
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2025
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Race for first private space station heats up as NASA set to retire ISS
With NASA's International Space Station set to come out of service in 2030, American aerospace firm Vast has stepped into a frenzied race for the world's first commercial space station.
Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2025
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The hidden danger of lunar micrometeoroid storms
The moon has no significant atmosphere, no weather, and no wind. Yet it faces an invisible bombardment more relentless than any terrestrial storm, a constant rain of micrometeoroids, tiny fragments of rock and metal traveling ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2025
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Solar storms delay the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket with Mars orbiters for NASA
Intense solar storms responsible for breathtaking auroras across the U.S. delayed the launch of Blue Origin's big new rocket Wednesday.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2025
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Solar storms bring colorful northern lights to unexpected places
Solar storms brought colorful auroras to unexpected places on Tuesday night, and there could be more to come.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2025
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The path to Mars: Small, unsexy problems
This article is a speculative piece based on the European Space Agency (ESA) Strategy 2040 plan for the future of space exploration. Dr. Orson Sutherland, a program manager responsible for Mars exploration at ESA, shared ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2025
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Google's plan for space-based computing
The sun produces more power than 100 trillion times humanity's entire electricity generation. In orbit, solar panels can be eight times more productive than their Earth-bound counterparts, generating energy almost continuously ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2025
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Severe solar storms may trigger widespread auroras and disrupt communications this week
Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications.
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2025
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Why is it so hard to take a good photo of the moon with my phone?
It's a beautiful clear night. The stars are out and the moon looks breathtaking against the sky, so you reach for your phone to take a snap. The results are, to be blunt, disappointing.
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2025
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China plans to go to the moon by 2030. Here's what's known about the mission and why it matters
More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on the lunar surface.
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2025
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New deployable structures could help astronauts maintain muscle mass in space
From muscle atrophy to bone loss, astronauts face a number of health risks while in space.
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2025
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Amid new FAA restraints, SpaceX goes for record launch
The government shutdown's strain on air traffic control has not only led to limitations on airlines, but spaceflight too.
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2025
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China's stranded astronauts 'in good condition' after space debris delays planned return
The stranded crew of a Chinese space mission is "in good condition, working and living normally," China's Manned Space Engineering office said on Tuesday.
Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2025
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