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Cool! Will we finally get to see the alien space stations on the other side of the moon?

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Japanese ispace moon landing attempt falls short at ‘very end,’ CEO says

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/ispa...atch-live.html

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Japanese ispace moon landing attempt falls short at ‘very end,’ CEO says

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/ispa...atch-live.html

Very unfortunate. It just shows how dangerous space travel is. The U.S. Space Program knows this very well.

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Rocket Lab launches 2 NASA satellites to study tropical storms and hurricanes like never before.

By Josh Dinner

The TROPICS cubesats lifted off today (May 7) from New Zealand.

Rocket Lab launches 2 NASA satellites to study hurricanes like never before | Space

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Artemis 2 will use lasers to beam high-definition footage from the moon (video)

By Josh Dinner

Artemis 2 astronauts will be testing out laser communications around the moon to enable faster transmission of images and video.

Artemis 2 will beam high-speed video from the moon using lasers | Space

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Rock that punched hole in New Jersey house confirmed to be 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite

By Sharmila Kuthunur


'It was clear it was not an Earth rock.'


​Rock that struck New Jersey house Monday confirmed to be meteorite | Space

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South Korean moon probe snaps picture of NASA's powerful lunar orbiter (photo)

By Andrew Jones


NASA's ShadowCam imager on the Danuri spacecraft captured a view of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.


​South Korean moon probe snaps picture of NASA's powerful lunar orbiter (photo) | Space

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SpaceX launch of private Ax-2 astronauts just put the 600th person in orbit

By Robert Z. Pearlman

Rayyanah Barnawi is also the first Saudi woman to fly in space and first Arab woman to orbit Earth.

SpaceX's Ax-2 astronaut launch just put the 600th person in orbit | Space

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Watch this giant sunspot erupt in barrage of powerful solar flares as it turns to face Earth (video)

By Daisy Dobrijevic

The volatile sunspot is not alone.

Watch this giant sunspot erupt in powerful solar flare barrage (video) | Space

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How long will the new supernova visible in the night sky last?

By Nola Taylor Tillman


Scientists expect it will slowly fade away until it can no longer be seen in visible light.


​How long will the new supernova visible in the night sky last? | Space

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Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission, new book reveals.

By Tereza Pultarova

Asteroid Bennu proved a trickster for NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid explorer, rewriting everything scientists had thought about space rocks.


Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission | Space

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'Sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth could soon bombard us with solar storms

By Harry Baker

A massive sunspot region made up of at least six different sunspot groups has emerged on the sun's nearside.


Enormous 'sunspot archipelago' 15 times wider than Earth could soon bombard us with solar flares | Space



(Image credit: NASA/SDO/HMI)

One of the largest and most densely populated sunspot regions seen in more than a decade has appeared on the sun's nearside to Earth — and has begun to unleash a barrage of solar storms that are shaking up our home star's surface in a big way. The sunspots' emergence could make it an interesting few weeks for Earth, which will soon be in the firing line of these eruptive dark patches...