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The view from the Zhurong rover as it deploys from its lander.

China’s Zhurong rover rolls onto Martian surface for first time

Mars is getting busy, with NASA's rovers joined by China's Zhurong rover. Zhurong has now rolled onto the Martian surface for the first time.
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ESA's moonlight initiative aims to put a constellation of satellites around the moon

European Space Agency wants to build a GPS network for the moon

ESA wants to creating a network of satellites in orbit around the moon which could help with landing missions, navigating rovers, and communicating with Earth.
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The sun, as captured by Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument on 12-13 February 2021.

Solar Orbiter captures incredible video of a coronal mass ejection

European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured video of an explosion of plasma from the sun, called a coronal mass ejection, for the first time.
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Perseverance rover will soon begin collecting samples from Mars

It's been a busy week on Mars, and NASA recently shared an update on what the Perseverance rover has been up to.
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Jupiter’s second spot is growing and changing and looking real weird

Jupiter's most famous feature is its Great Red Spot, but it has a sibling -- and a new image of this second spot shows it's getting stranger.
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An illustration of NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) on the lunar surface.

VIPER rover will brave the coldest regions of the moon to search for water

Before NASA sends humans back to the moon, it plans to send a robotic explorer: The Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, rover.
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The Voyager spacecraft continue to make discoveries even as they travel through interstellar space. In a new study, University of Iowa physicists report on the Voyagers' detection of cosmic ray electrons associated with eruptions from the sun--more than 14 billion miles away.

Beyond our solar system, Voyager 1 picks up the hum of interstellar gas

The two most distant man-made objects in the universe are the Voyager probes, launched in the 1970s. Now, Voyager 1 has found a hum of interstellar gas.
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Issue with rocket could delay the launch of James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope might be nearly ready, but an issue with its launch vehicle could see the launch delayed from its October date.
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Starlink satellites being deployed by SpaceX.

SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, along with rideshare satellites

SpaceX continues to grow its Starlink satellite constellation with its latest launch of a batch of satellites.
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Illustration of the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Test Program Satellite-6 (STPSat-6) with the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload communicating data over infrared links.

NASA is testing out a new laser communications system this summer

As the instruments we send into space get more complex and are able to collect more and more data, we need a more efficient way to send that data back to Earth.
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This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases the emission nebula NGC 2313. Emission nebulae are bright, diffuse clouds of ionized gas that emit their own light.

Hubble captures a cosmic cloud illuminated by starlight

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning fan of dust and gas illuminated by a star, forming a structure called an emission nebula.
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Beautiful images show the stripes of Jupiter in three different wavelengths

If you think Jupiter is beautiful in the visible light spectrum, wait until you see it in infrared and ultraviolet.
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Rocket Lab's Electron rocket

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket suffers issue during launch, fails to reach orbit

New Zealand-based launch company Rocket Lab has lost one of its Electron rockets in a launch failure that occurred on Saturday, May 15.
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Starlink Mission

How to watch SpaceX launch Starlink satellites and two payloads tonight

Tonight, SpaceX will be launching a rocket from Florida, and the launch will be streamed live so you can watch along from home.
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A black-and-white picture of Mars taken by Tianwen 1, the first snapshot from the Chinese craft.

China successfully lands a rover on Mars for the first time

China has become just the third nation to land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars, joining the U.S. and Russia in that achievement.
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Cosmic comms: How the first humans on Mars will communicate with Earth

In order to establish a human colony on Mars, we'll first need to get a reliable communications network built. Here's how scientists are making that happen
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Cosmic comms: How the first humans on Mars will communicate with Earth

Cosmic comms: How the first humans on Mars will communicate with Earth

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A four-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket.

You might be able to see a NASA research rocket launch tonight

Tonight, NASA will be launching a research rocket which people in parts of the U.S. and Bermuda may be able to see if they look to the skies at the right time.
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When flying past Venus in July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument, short for Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere that recombine into molecules in the nightside. The prominent dark feature in the center of the image is Aphrodite Terra, the largest highland region on the Venusian surface. Bright streaks in WISPR, such as the ones seen here, are typically caused by a combination of charged particles — called cosmic rays — sunlight reflected by grains of space dust, and particles of material expelled from the spacecraft’s structures after impact with those dust grains. The number of streaks varies along the orbit or when the spacecraft is traveling at different speeds, and scientists are still in discussion about the specific origins of the streaks here. The dark spot appearing on the lower portion of Venus is an artifact from the WISPR instrument.

Parker Solar Probe detects a natural radio signal coming from Venus

A NASA spacecraft intended to study the sun has been doing some bonus science, revealing new information about Venus as it passes by the planet.
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Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system.

‘Mars isn’t dead.’ There could be active volcanoes on the red planet

New research shows Mars may be more active than previously thought, giving evidence that there could have been volcanoes erupting within the last 50,000 years.
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A Long March-5 rocket, carrying an orbiter, lander and rover as part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars, lifts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Centre in southern China's Hainan Province on July 23, 2020.

Debris from Chinese Long March rocket falls into the Indian Ocean

The world has been watching the skies as a Chinese rocket came tumbling back to Earth in an uncontrolled reentry. The debris landed in the Indian Ocean.
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Starlink Mission

SpaceX sets record with the 10th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket

For the first time, SpaceX has sent a Falcon 9 rocket booster on its 10th flight, marking an important milestone in rocket reusability.
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UBCO’s Brendan Dyck is using his geology expertise about planet formation to help identify other planets that might support life.

How to spot a habitable exoplanet by investigating its core

New research aims to go beyond the concept of a habitable zone, and to understand the habitability of exoplanets based on the geology of how planets are formed.
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This detailed image features Abell 3827, a galaxy cluster that offers a wealth of exciting possibilities for study. Hubble observed it in order to study dark matter, which is one of the greatest puzzles cosmologists face today.

Hubble captures giant galaxy cluster that could help us understand dark matter

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of the enormous galaxy cluster Abell 3827, site of a famous debate over the nature of dark matter.
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In this illustration, NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter stands on the Red Planet's surface as NASA's Perseverance rover (partially visible on the left) rolls away. Ingenuity arrived at Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, attached to the belly of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.

Hear the sounds of Mars in first-ever audio recording of Ingenuity in flight

The Perseverance rover recorded audio of the Ingenuity helicopter in action on Mars, making it the first spacecraft to record the sounds of another spacecraft.
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This illustration shows the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft departing asteroid Bennu to begin its two-year journey back to Earth.

How to watch NASA bring home a piece of asteroid on Monday

OSIRIS-REx is the first NASA craft to visit an asteroid and collected a sample. This week, it will begin its journey home to Earth, and you can watch it live.
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's fifth flight was captured on May 7, 2021, by one of the navigation cameras aboard the agency's Perseverance rover. This was the first time it flew to a new landing site. NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's fifth flight was captured on May 7, 2021, by one of the navigation cameras aboard the agency's Perseverance rover. This was the first time it flew to a new landing site.

Ingenuity helicopter explores Mars on its own for the first time

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has made another successful flight on Mars, traveling away from the location which has been its home base and exploring a new area.
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Medicine on Mars: How we’ll keep astronauts healthy on the red planet

The first human visitors that reach Mars will face countless health risks, and when something goes wrong, there won't be doctors around to help
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Medicine on Mars: How we’ll keep astronauts healthy on the red planet

Medicine on Mars: How we’ll keep astronauts healthy on the red planet

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The interaction of two doomed stars has created this spectacular ring adorned with bright clumps of gas ­– a diamond necklace of cosmic proportions. Fittingly known as the “Necklace Nebula,” this planetary nebula is located 15,000 light-years away from Earth in the small, dim constellation of Sagitta (the Arrow).

A 10,000-year-old conflict between two stars formed the Necklace Nebula

The dramatic interactions of two very close stars formed the beautiful Necklace Nebula, recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Artist's impression of ESA's Hera Mission, a small spacecraft which aims to investigate whether an asteroid headed for Earth could be deflected.

What space agencies learned from a simulated asteroid impact

This week, space agencies from around the world came together to figure out how to respond if a large asteroid were to strike Earth.
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Sextans B is an irregular dwarf galaxy, meaning that it is irregularly shaped and smaller than our galaxy, the Milky Way. It lies around 4.5 million light-years from Earth and is located in the constellation Sextans in the southern sky. Captured with the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, this image of Sextans B features red-colored star-forming regions near the galaxy’s center. Surrounding the galaxy are several bright stars that are located much closer to us in our galaxy, identified by the crisscross patterns created by light interacting with the structure of the telescope, as well as numerous fuzzy-looking background galaxies that appear small because they are much farther away than Sextans B.

See where stars are born and where they die in the dwarf galaxy Sextans B

Dwarf galaxy Sextans B is only a few thousand light-years in diameter. But it hosts a whole range of astronomical phenomena squeezed into its diminutive size.
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NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, right are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, at 2:56 a.m. EDT May 2, 2021.

Crew-1 astronauts splash down safely off the Florida coast

The four astronauts of Crew-1 have made it home safely from the International Space Station, splashing down off the coast of Florida early this morning.
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Clockwise from bottom right are Expedition 64 Flight Engineers and SpaceX Crew-1 members Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi.

SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts return to Earth tomorrow in rare nighttime splashdown

After several delays, the four astronauts comprising the Crew-1 mission are scheduled to return to Earth tomorrow in a rare after-dark splashdown.
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