Space

Photo Story: Last of the Supermoons in Minsk

The full moon rises above apartments in Minsk, Belarus, on the evening of Thursday 07 May 2020. The 'Full Flower Moon' or the 'Corn Planting Moon' or the 'Milk Moon'…

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Tom Cruise preparing to shoot a movie in space

American actor Tom Cruise, 57, is set to board the International Space Station to film the first narrative feature outside Earth. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine confirmed the news earlier this…

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Trump administration drafting pact for mining on the moon

The Trump administration is drafting a legal blueprint for mining on the moon under a new U.S.-sponsored international agreement called the Artemis Accords, people familiar with the proposed pact told…

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Asteroid to make “close approach” with Earth today

A handout Doppler radar image made available by the Arecibo Observatory shows asteroid (52768) 1998 OR 2, which is approximately 2 km in diameter, approaching earth's orbit, 18 April 2020…

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Hubble Telescope marks 30th anniversary with stunning new image

The Hubble Space Telescope has celebrated its 30th birthday by issuing an extraordinary new picture from a distant galaxy. The stunning image is of a vast star-forming region close to…

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Photo Story: Lyrid meteor shower over Spain

A meteor crosses the sky over the town of Ajuy during Lyrid meteor shower in Fuerteventura island, Canary Islands, Spain, early 22 April 2020. The source of the meteors is…

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Photo Story: Starlink satellites above Hungary

A computer-generated image from several long-exposure images shows Starlink satellites (centre) in the sky above the concrete base of a former heating plant in Salgotarjan, Hungary, 20 April 2020. The…

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From isolation to isolation, ISS return to Earth

A crew of three has returned from the International Space Station (ISS) to a very different planet they left last year. Their Soyuz landing capsule landed under a striped orange-and-white…

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Space station crew blast off for isolation in space

A three-man crew blasted off to the International Space Station on Thursday, leaving behind a planet overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic. Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space…

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Photo Story: Largest, brightest supermoon of 2020

In the photo above a full moon rises above the Salgo Castle pictured from Somoskoujfalu, Hungary. This full moon is known as the Pink supermoon because it is the first…

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Photo Story: The ISS expedition attends final exams at cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow

A member of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition Ivan Vagner attends his final exams at the Russian cosmonaut training center in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, 12 March 2019.…

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SpaceX plans eight-day tourist space trip

SpaceX on Thursday announced plans to send three tourists to the International Space Station aboard its Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission will be the first private trip to space in…

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NASA confirms a fall in greenhouse gas emissions in China amid coronavirus outbreak

The decline in economic activity in China due to the coronavirus is now visible from space. Many experts had already observed a reduction in gas emissions in the country, but…

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Scientists detect biggest explosion since Big Bang

Scientists have detected evidence of a colossal explosion in space - five times bigger than anything observed before. The huge release of energy is thought to have emanated from a…

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NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson who helped launch first American into orbit dies at age of 101

Nasa mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch the first American into orbit around the Earth, has died at the age of 101. Nasa, which describes Ms Johnson as one of…

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Airbus proposes a solution to protect Earth from asteroids

It’s a scenario worthy of a Hollywood movie thriller: an approaching asteroid threatens the Earth, and an industry team is busily working on converting a telecommunications satellite into a kinetic…

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Unusual radio signals detected from space

Astronomers have detected alien signals - that is, signals from a foreign galaxy - being emitted in an unusually regular 16-day cycle. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are not in and…

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Solar Orbiter blasts off on historic mission

An undated handout image made available by ESA shows an illustration of ESA's (European Space Agency's) Solar Orbiter spacecraft against the backdrop of an image of the Sun. The Solar…

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Photo Story: The first Supermoon of 2020

Two people kiss as the supermoon shines over the lighthouse of Favaritx, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, on the evening of Saturday 08 February 2020. The first supermoon of the year…

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NASA Study Reveals Arctic Ice Melt Is Changing Ocean Currents

A major ocean current in the Arctic is faster and more turbulent as a result of rapid sea ice melt, a new study from NASA shows. The current is part…

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US astronaut ends longest spaceflight by a woman

American astronaut Christina Koch landed back on Earth on Thursday, marking the end of the longest space mission ever completed by a female astronaut. The Soyuz MS-13 capsule touched down on…

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Photo Story: When stars fight

A handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on 05 February 2020 shows an Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) image of the outcome of a stellar fight:…

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Two satellites narrowly miss colliding over US city of Pittsburgh

Two satellites hurtling across the sky at nearly 33,000 mph (53,000 km/h) narrowly missed a collision over the US state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday. The objects in question are an…

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NASA Celebrates the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope

An undated handout photo made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of an image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope showing the spiral arms of galaxy Messier 81…

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Astronomers trace journey of phosphorus to Earth

A handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on 15 January 2020 shows the key results from a study that has revealed the interstellar thread of…

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Penumbral lunar eclipse in Myanmar

The full moon pictured during the penumbral lunar eclipse on the evening of 11 January 2020 in Yangon, Myanmar. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when the moon becomes dipped in…

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NASA loses contact with important satellite

A miniature satellite tasked with searching for planets outside the solar system has gone dark, mission operators at Nasa have said. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said they were last…

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First British astronaut says aliens exist and could already be on earth

The first British astronaut to go into space has claimed aliens exist and it is possible they are living among us on earth. Speaking to the Observer Magazine, Dr Helen…

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Photo Story: The bright city lights of Long Island, New York City and New Jersey

A handout photo made available by NASA shows an image taken from the International Space Station (ISS) of the bright city lights of Long Island, New York City and…

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Photo Story: A Celestial Pairing of Moon and Venus

For a few hours Saturday evening, the crescent moon and Venus paired up for a celestial treat. In the photos, the view of the conjunction of the Moon and Venus,…

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Satellite image of the fires in Australia’s southeastern states

A handout photo made available by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of a satellite image showing part of mainland Australia, where historic bushfires still rage in the southeastern…

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Photo Story: Solar eclipse in Asia

A solar eclipse is visible through cloud cover in Mysore, India, 26 December 2019. During the celestial annular solar eclipse, the moon covers the Sun's centre, leaving the Sun's visible rim to…

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Boeing’s capsule lands after incomplete space mission

The Boeing company has cut short the demonstration flight with no crew on board of its new astronaut capsule. The Starliner launched successfully on its Atlas rocket from Florida, but…

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Trump officially launches US military ‘Space Force’

President Donald Trump has officially funded a Pentagon force focused on warfare in space - the US Space Force. It is not intended to put troops into orbit, but will…

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Boeing fails key test to reach space station

Boeing Co’s new astronaut capsule failed after liftoff on Friday to climb high enough in orbit to reach the International Space Station, cutting short a critical unmanned test mission in…

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Gas halo observed in space by European Southern Observatory

A handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on 19 December 2019 shows one of the gas halos newly observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very…

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European Southern Observatory issues photo of the Milky Way’s central region

A handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory, ESO, on 16 December 2019, taken with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Chilean Atacama Desert,…

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Indian Space Research Organization puts in orbit Earth Observation satellite

A handout picture provided by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shows the fully integrated PSLV-C48 successfully launches RISAT-2BR1 taking off from the launch pad at Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space…

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NASA unveils Mars 2020 rovers

A handout composite photo made available by NASA shows illustrations of NASA's Curiosity (L) and Mars 2020 (R) rovers (issued 11 December 2019). While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity's…

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European Space Agency approves record budget, preparing to send Europeans to the moon

European space exploration is getting its biggest financial boost in 25 years. At a conference in Seville, Spain, the 22 member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday…

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NASA space robot tests in Antarctica

A little robotic explorer will be rolling into Antarctica in November 2019 to perform a gymnastic feat - driving upside down under sea ice. BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for…

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Photo Story: Starlink satellites visible in the sky

Starlink satellites are visible in the sky near Salgotarjan, Hungary, early 25 November 2019. In this long exposure image, the movement of satellites is seen as shining tracks. Each of…

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NASA scientists open untouched Moon rock and soil sample ahead of Artemis missions

An undated handout photo made available by NASA shows Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan preparing to collect samples 73001 and 73002 from the Moon (issued 14 November 2019). NASA scientists…

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UK and Australia team up to use space technology to protect Pacific from climate change and natural disasters

The UK Space Agency is looking for project ideas, to be delivered through UK aid, that use the data collected by satellites to improve decision-making for disaster risk reduction, ocean…

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Secretive U.S. military space plane lands in Florida after record-long orbital flight

The Pentagon’s secretive X-37B space plane landed in Florida on Sunday after a record-long orbital flight lasting more than two years, the U.S. Air Force said, capping the latest test…

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Photo Story: NASA issues photo of first all-female spacewalk

A handout photo made available by NASA shows Expedition 61 Flight Engineers, NASA spacewalkers Christina Koch (foreground, suit with red stripe) and Jessica Meir (suit with no stripes). The mission…

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Photo Story: The Moving to Mars Exhibition in London

Photos from the 'Moving to Mars' exhibition at the Design Museum in London, Britain, 17 October 2019. The exhibition features immersive environments, about 200 objects including contributions from NASA, the…

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NASA’s First All-Female Spacewalk Set For Friday

U.S. astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will make history on Friday when they conduct the first ever all-female spacewalk to replace the power source on the International Space Station…

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Alexei Leonov, the first man to conduct a spacewalk, has died

Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut, who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. The Russian…

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First all-female spacewalk scheduled for 21 October 2019

A handout photo released by NASA on 04 October 2019 shows astronauts Jessica Meir (L) and Christina Koch (R) posing on the International Space Station (ISS) in space (issued 06…

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Photo Story: A Cosmic Pretzel

An undated handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) issued on 04 October 2019 shows an image of two circumstellar disks, in which baby stars are growing,…

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Soyuz MS-12 space capsule lands in Kazakhstan

The Russian Soyuz MS-12 space capsule lands about 150 km (90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. A Soyuz space capsule with U.S. astronaut Nick Hague, Russian…

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The ISS expedition 61/62 gets ready to launch

A member of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 61/62, UAE astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri leaves a hotel during the send-off ceremony before the launch of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft…

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Installation of Soyuz rocket booster in Kazakhstan

The Soyuz booster rocket FG with Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft attached, is rolled out to the launch pad by train at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, 23 September 2019. The launch…

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Australian Government Commits to Join NASA in Lunar Exploration and Beyond

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced his nation’s intention to join the United States’ Moon to Mars exploration approach, including NASA’s Artemis lunar program. The announcement took place at…

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Two asteroids to pass by Earth in a day

NASA has announced that an enormous asteroid is to pass earth Saturday night. The asteroid, known as Asteroid 2000 QW7, is between 300 to 600 meters and will fly by…

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Water found for first time on potentially habitable planet

Astronomers have for the first-time discovered water in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star. The finding makes the world - which is…

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