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Axiom Space's next astronaut mission to the ISS with SpaceX delayed to spring 2025

Axiom Space's next astronaut mission will be delayed due to the approval process required for International Space Station crews, according to NASA.

Space

Mars orbiter hears the siren song of a salty Red Planet 'mermaid'

The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spied a salt deposit on Mars that likely indicates water once flowed there, in a region known as the "Sea of the Sirens."

Space

Small black holes could play 'hide-and-seek' with elusive supermassive black hole pairs

Small pairs of binary black holes could be used to play hide-and-seek' with elusive supermassive black hole binaries via gravitational waves carry the "baritone singing" of these cosmic titans.

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‘It’s going to be hair-raising’: high-risk slingshot move will send robot craft to Jupiter

European space scientists will begin a delicate navigation that will take a probe on scenic route to outer solar system

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'Galaxy Zoo' project needs your help classifying tens of thousands of galaxies

The European Space Agency has launched a new citizen science project with Galaxy Zoo to classify tens of thousands of galaxies imaged by the Euclid space telescope.

Space

Mars Express orbiter takes a deep dive into ancient Red Planet lake (images)

The Mars Express spacecraft has taken a "deep dive" into Caralis Chaos, an ancient lake on the Red Planet believed to have been larger than any body of water on Earth.

Space

Over 350 asteroids have hidden moons, Gaia space telescope finds

By precisely tracking the orbit of over 156,000 asteroids, the ESA star-surveying satellite Gaia has potentially found over 350 previously undiscovered asteroid-moon binaries.

Space

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Meet the crew for Axiom Space's Ax-4 mission to the ISS

The next team of astronauts has been announced for Axiom Space's next commercial human spaceflight mission to the ISS.

Space

The Higgs particle could have ended the universe by now – here’s why we’re still here

Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is at risk – walking on the edge of a very dangerous cliff. And it’s all down to the instability of a single fundamental particle: the Higgs boson.

The Conversation

Test your space debris catching skills in new game released by Astroscale

Space sustainability company Astroscale has launched a free computer game that allows players to test their space debris catching skills in a simulation based on the company's real mission.

Space

NASA smacked a spacecraft into an asteroid – and learned details about its 12-million-year history

NASA’s DART mission – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was humanity’s first real-world planetary defence mission.

The Conversation

Here's what the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris look like from space (photos)

The 2024 Summer Olympics started Friday (July 26) in Paris with the opening ceremony highlighting historic landmarks along the Seine River, which can be seen in a new satellite image from space.

Space

10 weird water worlds in the solar system and beyond

Planetary scientists have been searching the cosmos for liquid water. Here are the most promising water worlds in the solar system and beyond.

Space

Spacecraft To Swing By Earth, Moon On Path To Jupiter

A spacecraft launched last year will slingshot back around Earth and the Moon next month in a high-stakes, world-first manoeuvre as it pinballs its way through the Solar System to Jupiter.

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Europe's JUICE Jupiter probe flies by Earth on Aug. 20, and it may be visible to some skywatchers

Europe's JUICE Jupiter spacecraft will swing past Earth on Aug. 20, and some skywatchers in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean region may be able to see it.

Space

How spaceflight’s 'parastronaut program' could improve health-care practices here on Earth

ESA reserve astronaut John McFall's story inspired a study suggesting that the space community's inclusion efforts should be used in other fields, especially medicine.

Space

X-rays reveal secret gas in huge and distant galaxy cluster

The Euclid and XMM-Newton missions have combined to show the hidden, hot gas that fills an immense galaxy cluster 2.7 billion light-years away.

Space

Space is becoming an 'unsustainable environment in the long term,' ESA says

Large amounts of space debris and satellite megaconstellations in low Earth orbit are creating "an unsustainable environment in the long-term," according to a new report from the European Space Agency.

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21 'one-in-a-million' extreme dead stars found hiding around sun-like stars

Astronomers have detected 21 rare systems with widely separated neutron stars and sun-like stars. These binaries are "one in a million" and challenge dead star binary formation models.

Space

Europe on the moon: ESA targeting 2031 for 1st 'Argonaut' lunar lander mission

The first robotic Argonaut moon landing mission is targeted for 2031, the European Space Agency noted in a document published last week.

Space

NASA looking at what artifacts to preserve from space station before 2030 demise

Two years after stating there were no plans to save artifacts from the end of the International Space Station, NASA is in the early stages of identifying what small parts of the complex to preserve.

Space

A high-speed particle struck the Gaia space telescope — but Gaia came back stronger than ever

A high-speed particle and electronics malfunction threatened the Gaia space telescope, but scientists managed to not only fix the issue, but also to optimize Gaia beyond its previous capabilities.

LiveScience

Gaia spacecraft almost doomed by back-to-back meteor strike and solar storm — but ESA says they've found a solution

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft is back to routine operations studying the Milky Way after a meteor strike punctured its protective shield, allowing charged solar particles to stream through.

Space

The greatest astronomical discoveries of the past 25 years

As we celebrate Space.com's 25th anniversary, take a look back at the greatest discoveries in astronomy in the past 25 years.

LiveScience

Comet predicted to light up Earth's skies this fall may be falling apart

A new paper suggests that comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, may completely break apart before it reaches its closest approach to Earth in October. If the comet does survive long enough to reach us, it should be bright enough to spot with the naked eye.

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