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China unveils its plans to turn its feats in space exploration into scientific advances

China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing back rocks from the moon
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A woman holds a national flag near a floral display featuring a theme of China Space Mission for the upcoming National Day celebration, in Beijing, on Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
October 15, 2024 at 2:03 AM

When to see the Hunter's Moon, the biggest and brightest supermoon of the year


The full October moon will appear low and large on the horizon.
October 15, 2024 at 2:03 AM
The full October moon will appear low and large on the horizon.
October 14, 2024 at 4:54 PM

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft will scour Jupiter moon for the ingredients for life

A massive NASA spacecraft has set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa
October 14, 2024 at 4:54 PM
This illustration provided by NASA depicts the Europa Clipper spacecraft over the moon, Europa, with Jupiter at background left. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)
October 11, 2024 at 1:07 AM

Northern lights on display across the eastern US amid 'severe' solar storm

A "severe" solar storm has made the northern lights visible in the U.S. farther south than usual while also posing the potential to disrupt modern technology.
October 11, 2024 at 1:07 AM
An aurora borealis, also known as the northern lights, is seen on Oct. 10, 2024, in Falmouth, Maine.
October 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM

This is what monstrous Hurricane Milton looks like from the space station

The best view of Hurricane Milton may come from 250 miles above Earth.
October 9, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Hurricane Milton advances toward Florida in a view from Dragon Endeavor docked with the International Space Station on Oct. 9, 2024.
October 9, 2024 at 1:42 PM

A rare comet brightens the night skies in October

A rare, bright comet will be visible in October, clear skies permitting
October 9, 2024 at 1:42 PM
This photo provided by Nicolas Biver shows Comet C/2023 A3 (ATLAS-Tsuchinshan) as seen in the night sky of Granada, Spain, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Nicolas Biver via AP)
October 7, 2024 at 6:06 PM

A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test

A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash
October 7, 2024 at 6:06 PM
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 at Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying a European spacecraft to an asteroid. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
October 2, 2024 at 3:42 PM

October's 'ring of fire' solar eclipse will dazzle parts of South America and Pacific

A “ring of fire" eclipse of the sun will cross the Pacific and the tips of Argentina and Chile
October 2, 2024 at 3:42 PM
FILE - The "ring of fire" annular eclipse during the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, N.M., on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. (Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, File)
October 1, 2024 at 4:06 PM

Mysteries of universe revealed? Hardly. CERN still fascinates on its 70th anniversary

The scientific center that is home to the world’s largest particle accelerator and is billed as the world’s biggest machine is celebrating its 70th anniversary
October 1, 2024 at 4:06 PM
FILE - Fabiola Gianotti, left, Director General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and French President Emmanuel Macron, front, visit the ATLAS experiment, at the CERN (the European particle physics laboratory), in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, Pool, File)
September 30, 2024 at 4:38 PM

What to expect for October's 'ring of fire' solar eclipse

Celebrity astrologer Kyle Thomas breaks down everything you need to know for October's 'ring of fire' solar eclipse.
September 30, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Celebrity astrologer Kyle Thomas breaks down everything you need to know for October's 'ring of fire' solar eclipse.
September 30, 2024 at 4:10 PM

'Ring of fire' to appear 6 months after total solar eclipse

Another "ring of fire" annular solar eclipse will be visible on Oct. 2, 2024 from some parts of Earth.
September 30, 2024 at 4:10 PM
The sun rises behind the skyline during an annular eclipse in Toronto, Canada, June 10, 2021. Across parts of Canada, viewers witnessed the rare sighting of a so-called "ring of fire" solar eclipse - a thin outer ring of the sun's disk that is not completely covered by the smaller dark disk of the moon.
September 29, 2024 at 11:48 AM

NASA, SpaceX launch capsule to bring home Starliner astronauts

NASA launched SpaceX craft Saturday afternoon, as part of its mission to head to the International Space Station and bring back two stranded astronauts back to Earth.
September 29, 2024 at 11:48 AM
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is prepared to launch its Crew Dragon spacecraft with a crew consisting of NASA and Roscosmos Astronauts to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., Sept. 27, 2024 .
September 26, 2024 at 7:47 PM

Delayed SpaceX launch expected on Saturday

SpaceX and NASA delayed the mission due to Hurricane Helene.
September 26, 2024 at 7:47 PM
SpaceX and NASA delayed the mission due to Hurricane Helene.
September 20, 2024 at 12:16 AM

Rare harvest blood super moon stuns around the world

The phenomenon occurs at the start of fall when the moon is close to Earth.
September 20, 2024 at 12:16 AM
VIDEO: Rare harvest blood super moon stuns around the world
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Asteroid to enter Earth's orbit temporarily: What to know about 'mini-moon'

The asteroid will orbit the Earth for about two months starting from Sept. 29.
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Earth to get a temporary 2nd moon

Astrophysics Professor Adam Frank explains the gravitational capture event involving tiny asteroid 2024 PT5.
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VIDEO: Earth to get a temporary 2nd moon
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Mars 'spiders' were a decades-old mystery. Now NASA says they recreated them in a lab

Dubbed "araneiform terrain," the Mars surface formations span over a half-mile long and have hundreds of branches that resemble spider legs, according to NASA.
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This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region. As the sun returns in the spring, "spiders" begin to emerge from the landscape.
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NASA's 'Hidden Figures' awarded Congressional Gold Medal for groundbreaking work

The Black NASA female mathematicians and aeronautical engineers referred to as the "Hidden Figures" were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal this week.
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This photo provided by NASA shows mathematician Katherine Johnson in 1966.
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September's full Supermoon will be a partial lunar eclipse: What to know

The full moon, also known as Harvest Moon, will arrive on Sept. 17.
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The Harvest Moon which is the full moon in September this year is also partial lunar eclipse and will arrive on Sept. 17, 2024.
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Polaris Dawn mission ends successfully

The Space-X capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico after a five-day trip that took its passengers further from Earth than anyone has traveled since NASA's Apollo missions half a century ago.
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VIDEO: Polaris Dawn mission ends successfully
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NASA astronauts in good spirits despite being stranded

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams held a news conference from the Boeing Starliner at the International Space Station on Friday.
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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams held a news conference from the Boeing Starliner at the International Space Station on Friday.
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Former astronaut on what we can learn from latest spacewalk

Cady Coleman discusses the out-of-this-world activity which less than 300 people have ever conducted.
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VIDEO: Former astronaut on what we can learn from latest spacewalk
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1st spacewalk from commercial aircraft makes history

Sarah Gillis and billionaire Jared Isaacman of the Polaris Dawn space mission, which was launched in partnership with SpaceX, began the first-ever private spacewalk on Thursday morning.
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VIDEO: 1st spacewalk from commercial aircraft makes history
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Polaris Dawn lifts off ahead of planned historic first commercial spacewalk

The highly anticipated program has faced a series of delays from the originally planned Aug. 26 launch due to unfavorable weather conditions and a ground system issue.
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The highly anticipated program has faced a series of delays from the originally planned Aug. 26 launch due to unfavorable weather conditions and a ground system issue.
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Polaris Dawn lifts off ahead of planned historic first commercial spacewalk

The highly anticipated program has faced a series of delays from the originally planned Aug. 26 launch due to unfavorable weather conditions and a ground system issue.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon Resilience capsule, carrying the crew of the Polaris Dawn Mission, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on September 10, 2024.
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Boeing’s Starliner to return to Earth without astronauts

NASA is taking no chances when it comes to safety, even if it means an eight-day mission turned into eight months on the ISS.
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VIDEO:  Boeing’s Starliner to return to Earth without astronauts
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Boeing's Starliner scheduled to return to Earth without astronauts

The Starliner spacecraft is scheduled to return to Earth from the International Space Station without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
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VIDEO: Boeing's Starliner scheduled to return to Earth without astronauts
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Boeing's Starliner scheduled to return to Earth without astronauts

The Starliner spacecraft is set to return to Earth from the International Space Station without astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams.
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VIDEO: Boeing's Starliner scheduled to return to Earth without astronauts
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Stunning 'Orbital Sunrise' seen from space

A NASA astronaut captured this stunning timelapse of an "orbital sunrise" while flying over Europe on the International Space Station.
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VIDEO:  Stunning 'Orbital Sunrise' seen from space
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How much radiation have the Starliner astronauts been exposed to aboard the ISS?

As the NASA astronauts who crewed Boeing's Starliner to the ISS wait until February 2025 to come home, here's how much radiation they may have been exposed to.
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for the Crew Flight Test launch in Cape Canaveral, Fla., June 5, 2024.
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Youngest woman makes space history

A 21-year-old college student, Karsen Kitchen, made space history as the youngest woman ever to cross the Kármán line, the border between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.
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VIDEO: Youngest woman makes space history
2 months ago

A university professor will fly into space for a first-of-its-kind experiment

Researchers are trying to understand how cells transition from earth to space.
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Researchers are trying to understand how cells transition from earth to space.
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A university professor will fly into space for a first-of-its-kind experiment

A university professor is about to venture out of this world to carry out a science experiment decades in the making.
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University of Florida professors Robert Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul prepare for an experiment aboard the Blue Origin =.
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Starliner crew set to return in 2025

The two American astronauts' stay on the International Space Station has been extended because NASA has ruled the Boeing Starliner craft unsafe.
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VIDEO: Starliner crew set to return in 2025
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2 Boeing Starliner astronauts set to come back to Earth on a Space-X craft

NASA says astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will go home February 2025 on a Space-X craft; Their return delayed another 6 months. Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will return to Earth unmanned.
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VIDEO: 2 Boeing Starliner astronauts set to come back to Earth on a Space-X craft
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Boeing Starliner astronauts stranded in space will not return until 2025: NASA

NASA said Saturday the astronauts that flew Boeing's Starliner to the ISS have to return to Earth on a different spacecraft in 2025.
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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test, is launched on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 5, 2024.
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A rare landing on the south pole of the moon led to this scientific discovery

There was once a magma-filled ocean on the south pole of the moon, scientists recently discovered after analyzing lunar soil.
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Fields of dark rock left by volcanic eruptions, mistaken for huge seas, were named "maria." Some of them make up the Man in the Moon's face.
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August's full blue moon will be first of 4 supermoons in a row: What to expect

A supermoon coinciding with a blue moon is exceptionally rare, according to NASA, with the next pairing happening in January and March 2037.
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The Blue Supermoon rises behind the antenna on top of One World Trade Center in New York City on Aug. 30, 2023, as seen from Jersey City.
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NASA weighs keeping two astronauts on ISS

NASA is weighing all options as two astronauts could be stranded on International Space Station until next year.
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VIDEO: NASA weighs keeping two astronauts on ISS
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NASA's Mars rover to begin 'most challenging' journey up crater rim

The Perseverance rover is the centerpiece of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, working to collect data in preparation for future human exploration of the Red Planet.
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This panorama shows the area NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover will climb in coming months to crest Jezero Crater’s rim. It is made up of 59 images taken by the rover’s Mastcam-Z on Aug. 4.
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Perseid meteor shower is about to peak: Here's how to see it

Marking one of the most plentiful meteor showers in the Northern Hemisphere, the Perseids showcase approximately 50 to 100 meteors per hour, NASA reports.
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A huge Perseid meteor is being seen over the night sky in Haputale, Sri Lanka, on Aug. 4, 2024.
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Boeing’s Starliner astronauts could be in space until 2025

Former astronaut Cady Coleman explains how the astronauts will be able to survive in space in the coming months and what the potential plan could be to bring them home.
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VIDEO: Boeing’s Starliner astronauts could be in space until 2025
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NASA says Boeing's Starliner may not be able to bring astronauts home

NASA officials said during a press conference on Wednesday that the astronauts who flew on Boeing's Starliner may have to come home on a different spacecraft.
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In this June 24, 2024 file photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, center, pose with Expedition 71 Flight Engineers Mike Barratt, left, and Tracy Dyson, aboard the International Space Station's Quest airlock.
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New images reveal what NASA learned from colliding a spacecraft into an asteroid

New images released from NASA’s mission to intentionally collide with an asteroid in 2022 have revealed information on the origins of the asteroid system.
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Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact in this image taken by DART on board DRACO imager from a distance of 68 kilometers, and released Sep. 26, 2022.
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Earth will soon have a naked-eye view of star system exploding 3,000 light-years away

The last recorded T Coronae Borealis explosion occurred in 1946.
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The last recorded T Coronae Borealis explosion occurred in 1946.
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Nova explosion 3,000 light-years away will be seen from Earth with the naked eye

T Coronae Borealis is one of just 10 recurring novas known in the Milky Way that erupt on time scales of less than a century, according to NASA.
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A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae Borealis.
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Boeing capsule astronauts remain at Space Station with no return date, NASA says

Veteran NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams' return to Earth delayed until at least August, officials said Thursday.
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Boeing Starliner spacecraft prepares to dock with the International Space Station for the first time on June 6, 2024.
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July full moon: What the buck moon means for your zodiac

The full moon in July is known as the buck moon and will arrive on July 21, 2024, at 06:17 a.m. ET.
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The full moon was dubbed the Buck Moon by northeastern Native American tribes because the antlers of male deer, known as bucks, are in "full-growth mode at this time."
3 months ago

Daylight fireball meteor may have rattled parts of NYC and New Jersey: NASA

Officials report that the fireball may have flown at 34,000 miles per hour as it passed over the Statue of Liberty before disintegrating over Midtown Manhattan.
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In this undated file photo, the skyline of New York is shown.
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NASA says mystery boom was caused by meteor

ABC News' Rhiannon Ally reports on the rare fireball seen and felt yesterday in the Northeast.
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VIDEO:  NASA says mystery boom was caused by meteor