From left, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi pose for a group portrait inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module on July 19, 2025. NASA hide caption toggle caption NASA A crew of four wrapped up a nearly five-month stay on …
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NASA has revealed the most detailed images yet taken of comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that is currently barreling its way through our solar system. The images, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have enabled astronomers to more accurately estimate the space object’s size — and it looks like it’s smaller than we thought, NASA said in a statement. 3I/ATLAS …
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover continues to beam home incredible sights from the Red Planet surface. This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released an enhanced-color mosaic of 96 separate images taken by Perseverance on May 26, 2025 that together create an 360-degree panorama of a location on Mars called “Falbreen.” This area contains some of the oldest terrain Perseverance has …
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Nasa/Getty Images Happy 13th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012. Ah, I remember when I turned 13: just starting to shave, voice cracking like ice in spring, and learning how to multitask so that my tiny nuclear reactor would last longer. Sadly, Curiosity will never …
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What a time to be alive, when you can pull a tiny computer from your pocket and gaze at a high-resolution panorama of Mars captured by a space-traveling robot. The image is a mosaic of 96 images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover on May 26, 2025, that were carefully pieced together to create this 360° panoramic image. If you’re wondering …
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Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our own Sun. At just 4 light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple star system has long been a compelling target in the search for worlds beyond our solar system. Alpha Centauri, located in the …
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‘Float rocks,’ sand ripples, and vast distances are among the sights to see in the latest high-resolution panorama by the six-wheeled scientist. The imaging team of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took advantage of clear skies on the Red Planet to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far. Visible in the mosaic, which was stitched together from …
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The rover made this abrasion on May 22 and performed proximity science (a detailed analysis of Martian rocks and soil) with its arm-mounted instruments two days later. The science team wanted to learn about Falbreen because it’s situated within what may be some of the oldest terrain Perseverance has ever explored — perhaps even older than Jezero Crater. Tracks from …
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Winners and losers About five years ago NASA awarded initial space station development contracts to four different companies: Northrop Grumman, Blue Origin, Axiom Space, and Voyager Space. Since then Northrop has dropped its effort and joined Voyager’s team. There has also been some interest from other companies, most notably Vast, which is working with SpaceX to develop its initial space …
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