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See the moon cross the Pleiades for the last time this year on July 20

The moon's crescent limb will cloak and uncover stars from the iconic cluster before sunrise.

Space

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 169 — The Day Mars Died

On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by JPL Chief Engineer Emeritus Rob Manning to look back at the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later.

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Twin NASA Mars probes will fly on 2nd-ever launch of Blue Origin's huge New Glenn rocket

Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket now has a payload for its second-ever flight —NASA's ESCAPADE Mars mission.

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Astronomers discover strange solar system body dancing in sync with Neptune: 'Like finding a hidden rhythm in a song'

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice giant Neptune.

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Newly discovered 'cosmic unicorn' is a spinning dead star that defies physics: 'We have a real mystery on our hands'

Two teams of astronomers have simultaneously discovered a strange, spinning dead star that seems to defy our current understanding of both neutron stars and white dwarfs.

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The 2025 Southern Delta Aquariid meteor shower is upon us! Here's what you need to know

The Southern Delta Aquariids are active alongside the trusty Perseid meteor shower.

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Record-breaking high-altitude shot of sun's surface captured from one of Europe's tallest mountains (photo)

"The mountaineer defies gravity; the astronomer looks up. Both seek to reach the unreachable."

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Space station astronauts bid farewell to private Ax-4 crew | On the ISS this week July 14-18, 2025

The Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 crews wrapped up their time together as science and maintenance activities continued aboard the International Space Station.

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See Venus, the moon and fiery star Aldebaran form a dawn triangle this weekend

Rise and shine! Venus, Aldebaran and the moon team up for a dazzling dawn display.

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The Vera Rubin Observatory could find dozens of interstellar objects

As astronomers rush to study a newly discovered comet from beyond our solar system, a powerful new observatory may turn rare interstellar sightings into routine events.

Space

'The future for this baby planet doesn’t look great.' Exoplanet is shrinking before the X-ray eyes of NASA's Chandra space telescope

Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray telescope to observe an exoplanet as it disintegrates because its parent star is bombarding it with radiation.

Space

A lunar eclipse steals the show in a colorful sky | Space photo of the day for July 18, 2025

A lunar eclipse was seen over the U.S. Naval Observatory Deep South Telescope in Chile.

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NASA workers plan 'Moon Day' protest on July 20 to oppose mass layoffs, budget cuts. 'This year has been an utter nightmare that has not stopped.'

Workers from within NASA will protest the space agency leadership's "preemptive over-compliance" of the White House's proposed budget, gutting science and eliminating jobs.

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A doomed exoplanet is caught in a 'death spiral' around its star. Can it survive?

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates.

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Scientists extracted water and oxygen from moon dust using sunlight. Could it work on the lunar surface?

Soil excavated from the moon could be used to produce oxygen and methane, which could be used by lunar settlers for breathing and for rocket fuel.

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2 billion-year-old moon rock found in Africa reveals secret lunar history

The basaltic meteorite is a piece of lunar rock that formed in a lava flow 2.35 billion years ago, long after volcanism on the moon was supposed to have ended.

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A vast shadow will sweep over Saturn's cloud tops early on July 18: Here's how to see it

Titan shadow transit seasons occurs just once every 15 years.

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China's Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling probe snaps gorgeous shots of Earth and the moon (video, photos)

China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.

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Bad news for alien life? Earth-size planets may be less common than we thought

Up to 200 worlds investigated by NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS satellite could be bigger than predicted, a finding that could impact our search for alien life.

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Telescope spies rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zooming through our solar system (photos)

Astronomers unveiled a striking view of the new interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS on its journey toward the inner solar system.

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50 years after a historic handshake in space, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project's legacy still resonates

On July 17, 1975, an American Apollo crew and a Soviet Soyuz crew met up in Earth orbit for the first time, setting the foundation for continued cooperation in space over the past 50 years.

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Don't miss the third quarter moon shine near Saturn in the eastern sky tonight

The left-hand side of the moon will appear lit by direct sunlight, with the right bathed in shadow.

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'Doghouse' days of summer — Boeing's Starliner won't fly again until 2026, and without astronauts aboard

NASA and Boeing are still working on the thruster issues that Starliner experienced on its first crewed flight last year, and the spacecraft's next mission will likely launch without astronauts.

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NASA X-ray spacecraft reveals secrets of a powerful, spinning neutron star

Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal the source powering its emissions.

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NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing 'no legal obligation' to do so

NASA will not host the U.S. government's primary climate assessment reports on its website after all, despite a White House claim that they would be available via the space agency.

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