India becomes the first country to land on one of the moon's lunar poles

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India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed days after Russia's Luna-25 mission ended in a crash landing. The country is the first to land on one of the moon's lunar poles.

Elon Musk is gearing up to launch his Starship mega-rocket in August. Here are 2 changes SpaceX made to stop it exploding.

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Side by side images show Starship on its first integrated launch in April 20 next to a picture of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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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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A once-in-century solar storm could fry power grids and knock out satellites. Here's why scientists worry it could happen soon.

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Image of massive solar prominence.
A long solar prominence erupting off the surface, taken by the Solar Dynamic Observatory on August 31, 2012.

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You can win $50,000 if you successfully hack a US government satellite

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Satellite over the Earth's surface.
A satellite over the Earth's surface.

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Virgin Galactic's first space tourism passengers only spent a few minutes floating weightless above the Earth, and their experience still mirrored other astronauts' in 3 key ways

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Anastatia Mayers, one of the youngest person to ever travel to space, onboard Virgin Galactic's flight.

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Russia is racing to beat the US, India, and China to the south pole of the moon in its first lunar mission since the 70s

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A Soyuz rocket is shown blasting off from its launch pad at Vostochny Cosmodrome.
Rocket booster with Luna-25 lunar lander blasts off at Vostochny Cosmodrome on Friday. Russia's mission aims to be the first to do a soft-landing on the south pole of the moon.

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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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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a question mark in deep space. It could be 2 galaxies colliding.

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NASA, what is this?

NASA, ESA, CSA. Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

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