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Gigantic 'hole' in the sun wider than 60 Earths is spewing superfast solar wind right at us

A monstrous dark patch, known as a coronal hole, recently appeared near the sun's equator. The temporary gap enables unusually fast solar wind to race toward Earth.

LiveScience

NASA's Mars robots back in action after 'solar conjunction'

NASA's Mars robots are back up to full speed on and around the Red Planet, after a two-week pause in commanding.

Space

Tom Hanks draws on his love of space for immersive documentary 'The Moonwalkers'

Tom Hanks is a lifelong space buff

The Independent UK

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Tom Hanks on London’s Moonwalkers experience - The Standard podcast

Tom Hanks tells The Standard podcast about his new project The Moonwalkers at the Lightroom in London.

Evening Standard

Australia's first lunar rover to be named Roo-ver

It's one giant leap for Australia's space program with a lunar rover named Roo-ver to be built locally for a mission to collect moon soil.

AAP

What are radio galaxies?

A radio galaxy is a type of galaxy with giant regions of radio emissions that reach far beyond its visible structure. We explore them in more detail here.

Space

ANU's vital role in helping NASA get to the moon and Mars

The quantum optical ground station will be launched on Wednesday.

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Astronaut Mike Massimino shares advice from NASA career in new book 'Moonshot'

Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares lessons learned during his career and how they can be applied in his new book, "Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut's Guide to Achieving the Impossible" out Dec. 5.

Space

Mercury may have a 'potentially habitable' region below its surface, salty glaciers suggest

Salty glaciers discovered in craters near Mercury's north pole may have the right conditions for extreme forms of life, new research suggests.

LiveScience

How Perseverance rover captured its youngest samples from Mars' Dream Lake (video)

A new NASA video explains how the Perseverance Rover may have collected its youngest rock sample yet from the Red Planet's Jezero Crater.

Space

X-ray telescope catches 'spider pulsars' devouring stars like cosmic black widows (image)

NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope has spotted a "clutter" of rapidly spinning neutron stars called spider pulsars that are devouring surrounding stars.

Space

SpaceX buys parachute manufacturer Pioneer Aerospace

SpaceX has acquired Pioneer Aerospace, a company that provided components for Dragon spacecraft parachutes before filing for bankruptcy.

Space

Was going to space a good idea?

In 1963, six years after the first satellite was launched, editors from the Encyclopaedia Britannica posed a question to five eminent thinkers of the day: “Has man’s conquest of space increased or diminished his stature?” The respondents were philosopher Hannah Arendt, writer Aldous Huxley, theologian Paul Tillich, nuclear scientist Harrison…

The Conversation

Space mysteries: Why are there no gas moons?

In our solar system we have rocky moons, ocean moons and frozen-ice moons, but there are no gas moons. Are we just unlucky not to have any gas moons, or are there physical reasons why they cannot exist?

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Why isn't there any sound in space? An astronomer explains why in space no one can hear you scream

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

Space

NASA to train Indian astronauts for a week-long trip to ISS in 2024

NASA will train two Indian astronauts, one of whom will fly to the ISS late next year, a space agency official announced this week.

Inverse

The Smartest Sci-Fi Show Sneaks in a Star Trek Easter Egg With Huge Implications

'For All Mankind' may take place in another universe, but that universe still has Star Trek. The showrunners of Apple's hit series help unpack a big Uhura Easter egg.

Space

Near-Earth asteroids: Hunting and tracking upcoming encounters

Here we explore whether there are any upcoming asteroid encounters and how NASA and other space agencies actively monitor near-Earth asteroids that have the potential to hit our planet.

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What does space smell like?

Outer space has a particular stench. But why?

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Cosmonauts dock Russian Progress cargo ship to ISS on remote control after autopilot glitch

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station took manual control of an incoming Progress 86 cargo ship on Sunday, Dec. 3, due to an autopilot issue.

Space

From Earth orbit to the moon: Europe's I-Hab continues Spacelab 40-year legacy

A legacy of European-built and operated space modules, which began in Earth orbit and is now heading for the moon, got its start with Spacelab 40 years ago.

Fortune

This Astronaut got rejected from NASA three times, but has a message for everyone about grit: ‘One in a million is not zero'

Mike Massimino set records in space travel, but his decade-journey to NASA taught him much more about how to live.

The Guardian - UK

‘I embrace the mystery’: Tom Hanks on his obsession with space, from Stanley Kubrick to The Moonwalkers

A childhood fascination led to the Apollo 13 star launching his spectacular immersive experience of the moon landings in London

The Canberra Times

The big cost to dispose of the International Space Station

It will have to be decommissioned - and that will be difficult and expensive.

The Canberra Times

New NASA report has the sceptics asking: so where are the aliens?

If there's a story that refuses to die, it's the one about aliens.

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