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Japan's SLIM moon lander defies death to survive 3rd frigid lunar night (image)

Japan's SLIM lunar lander has now survived three week-long nights on the moon, braving temperatures as low as minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit, despite not being designed to last one!

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April full moon has us tickled pink in these gorgeous photos

The Full Pink Moon rose on April 23, 2024, putting a damper on chances of catching any Lyrid meteors but providing a gorgeous target for cameras around the globe.

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China reveals Shenzhou 18 astronauts ahead of April 25 launch to Tiangong space station (video)

China has unveiled the three-person crew for its Shenzhou 18 mission, which is set to launch toward the Tiangong space station on Thursday (April 25).

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Citizen scientists spot more than 1,000 new asteroids in old Hubble Telescope photos

Citizen scientists poring over old Hubble Telescope photos discovered a thousand previously unknown asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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Giant gamma-ray flare from 'recently deceased' magnetar lights up Cigar Galaxy

Astronomers have discovered a flare erupting from a highly magnetic "dead star" outside the solar system for the first time. The magnetar flare lit up the entire Cigar Galaxy in gamma rays.

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NASA officially headed to Saturn moon

Visiting this mysterious ocean world could revolutionize what we know about alien life on other planets

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China’s Space Station Will ‘Definitely’ Welcome Foreign Astronauts in Near Future

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NASA ends CloudSat Earth-observing mission after 18 years

NASA's pioneering CloudSat weather and climate mission has come to an end after nearly 18 productive years in Earth orbit.

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Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater

Scientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa rocketing from the lunar surface millions of years ago.

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Building rockets and looking for life on Venus: Q&A with Rocket Lab's Peter Beck

Space.com caught up with Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck recently to talk about the company's ambitious plans for the future, which include a private life-hunting mission to Venus.

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Slovenia signs NASA's Artemis Accords for cooperative space exploration

Slovenia signed NASA's Artemis Accords on April 19, becoming the 39th country to affirm their cooperation in future space endeavors to the moon and beyond.

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ESA graduates the 'Hoppers': Europeans, Australian pass astronaut basic training

The "Hoppers" — five European astronauts and the first astronaut from the Australian Space Agency — are now ready to "hop" into their first flight assignments, having completed basic training.

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Watch the Full Pink Moon 2024 bloom in the night sky tonight

The Full Pink Moon of April 2024 steals the show tonight as it crosses the nighttime sky from dusk until dawn.

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Rocket Lab launches new NASA solar sail tech to orbit (video, photos)

Rocket Lab launched a South Korean Earth-observation satellite and new NASA solar-sailing tech this evening (April 23).

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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites, aces 300th rocket landing (photos, video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent 23 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites skyward today (April 23).

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Voyager 1 transmitting data again after Nasa remotely fixes 46-year-old probe

Engineers spent months working to repair link with Earth’s most distant spacecraft, says space agency

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Injury rates for Musk’s SpaceX exceed industry average for second year

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Pluto's heart-shaped scar may offer clues to the frozen world's history

How Pluto's Sputnik Planitia formed remains unknown, but researchers have imagined a body about the size of Switzerland crashing into Pluto at a shallow angle.

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ESA Graduates New Astronauts For International Space Missions

ESA welcomes five new astronauts after completing rigorous training program in Germany, preparing for ISS and Artemis moon missions.

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Australian taxpayers paid $466,000 for training of nation’s first female astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg

With Bennell-Pegg unlikely to go to space anytime soon, there are questions about the value of the spending by the cash-strapped Australian space program

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Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns' worth of material

Astronomers have mapped a 20,000-light-year-long fountain of gas blasting from a nearby galaxy and polluting intergalactic space at 450 times the top speed of a jet fighter.

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India aims to achieve 'debris-free' space missions by 2030

India has announced its intent to join the global effort to reduce space debris in low Earth orbit.

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Earth Day 2024: Witness our changing planet in 12 incredible satellite images

To commemorate Earth Day, enjoy these 12 NOAA satellite images that showcase the different ways this critical technology helps scientists keep an eye on our planet.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact

On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health. The interstellar explorer is back in touch after five months of sending back nonsense data.

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James Webb Space Telescope documentary returns to IMAX theaters this week for Earth Day. Watch exclusive clips here (video)

New James Webb Space Telescope documentary, "Deep Sky," returns to IMAX screens for Earth Day. Watch two exclusive clips here at Space.com.

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