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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Virgin Galactic passengers in space.
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.

Roscosmos/Vostochny Space Centre/Handout

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

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banana stuck in donut hole against starry galaxy space background
Space sex could be on the horizon.

Crystal Cox/Morgan McFall-Johnsen/Insider; NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

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

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giant orange question mark in the middle of galaxies and bright blue star-like lights in space
NASA, what is this?

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

Massive explosions from the sun pose a radioactive triple threat to the moon, Earth, and Mars

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A flash of light appears where the solar flare is released on the left side of the sun.
A picture of the sun taken on May 18 shows a powerful solar flare being released.

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Mars is spinning faster and its days are getting shorter — and scientists aren't sure why

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side by side images show a picture of Mars and an artist's impression of the Insight Lander picking up seismic signals on Mars.
NASA's Insight lander sent back data from Mars that shows the planet is slowly accelerating, making its days fractionally shorter every year.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS; NASA/JPL-Caltech

The moon is open for business, and entrepreneurs are racing to make billions

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The moon is open for business.

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A Virgin Galactic passenger joked that he will have to wear diapers on Thursday's mission because the spaceship doesn't have toilets

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Virgin Galactic's Galactic 01
A shot of the outside of Galactic 01 during its first commercial spaceflight.

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The 2023 Perseid meteor shower will peak this weekend, bringing up to 100 fireballs per hour. Here's where to watch.

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Perseids meteor shower
A meteor streaks across the sky during a Perseid meteor shower in Spruce Knob, West Virginia.

NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA used an interstellar 'shout' to reconnect with Voyager 2 probe after losing it in a technical screw-up

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An artist's concept which shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.
An artist's concept which shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft against a backdrop of stars.

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