NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a secret star Hubble missed, maybe solving the mystery of a dying star's multi-layered nebula

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail with its mid-infrared instrument.

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Russia's attempt to land on the moon for the first time in almost half a century ended in disaster

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A close up of the moon's surface is shown, strewn with craters.
Russia hadn't landed on the moon since 1976.

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Astronauts are banned from drinking alcohol at work, but this hasn't stopped them sneaking everything from communion wine to cognac into space

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Buzz Aldrin held a secret communion service on the moon and consumed wine and bread.

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U.S. Space Companies Becoming Prime Targets for Foreign Malware, Federal Agencies Warn

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As private space companies have ramped up production and launches in the past several years, they’ve also been unwittingly putting a target on their back. U.S. government agencies are warning the private space sector that they are in the crosshairs of foreign intelligence agencies.

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Pentagon Launches Study on How to Start an Economy on the Moon in the Next 10 Years

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The Moon is so hot right now, metaphorically speaking.

NASA Tests the First Rocket to Launch From the Surface of Another Planet

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NASA’s Perseverance rover has been diligently collecting rocky samples from Mars to stow them away on the planet’s dusty surface while engineers work to develop a rocket that can launch off of another world as a crucial step in the process of retr

Here's what fireballs are and how to best spot them at the Perseid meteor shower's peak

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A bright purple meteor streaks across the night sky
Perseid fireball photographed during the peak of the 2017 Perseid meteor shower in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

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Congress's UFO hearing shows the hardest part of discovering alien life may be announcing it. Here's how NASA might break the news.

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A time-lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy as seen from the International Space Station.

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Sun smacks Earth with 2 powerful, back-to-back X-class solar flares, knocking out radio signals across the US

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The right side of the sun experienced a solar flare on August 5, 2023, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

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Space tourists will probably have sex up there, but they shouldn't get pregnant, researchers warn

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Space sex could be on the horizon.

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