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Russia looks to China as new space exploration partner

Russia's decision to partner with China on a planned lunar research station, and not join the U.S.-led Artemis moon program, was disappointing after more than two decades of cooperation on the International Space Station, says NASA's top human spaceflight ...

NASA astronauts in space talk coronavirus and more with the CDC

Although orbiting astronauts are safely isolated on the International Space Station, the coronavirus has still impacted spaceflyers, according to a conversation between NASA astronauts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

NASA honors Navajo language on Mars with Perseverance rover rock names

NASA is highlighting the Navajo language with its latest Mars mission. After landing successfully on the Red Planet Feb. 18, NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring, focusing its sights on a rock named "Máaz," the Navajo word for "Mars." The team behind the ...

Blue Origin will simulate moon gravity on rocket launches for NASA

Blue Origin plans to deliver moon gravity-style missions on spaceflights much closer to Earth. Starting in 2022, the company plans to meet a long-standing need to simulate lunar gravity — that would be one-sixth that of Earth's — for larger payloads and for ...

A forgotten Cold War experiment has revealed its icy secret. It's bad news for the planet.

Washington Post

Washington Post

At first, Andrew Christ was ecstatic. In soil taken from the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet, he'd discovered the remains of ancient plants. Only one other team of researchers had ever found greenery beneath the mile-high ice mass. Support our journalism.

With SpaceX partnership, ISS enters its 'Golden Age'—but what comes next?

Though the near- future of this symbol of post-Cold War cooperation is assured, NASA hopes to begin disengaging by the end of the decade, leaving a gap that the private sector and China hope to fill. After 20 years of continuous habitation, the International ...

Supermassive black hole spotted wandering through space

CNN

CNN

Astronomers developed a mosaic of the distant universe, called the Hubble Legacy Field, that documents 16 years of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. The image contains 200,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to ...

China launches spy satellite triplet for third time this year

The three Yaogan 31-series satellites took off at 0219 GMT Saturday (9:19 p.m. EST Friday) from the Jiuquan launch base in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China, according to a statement from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., or CASC, the ...

How good metals go bad: Discovery explains unexpected properties of exotic metallic compounds

New measurements have solved a mystery in solid state physics: How is it that certain metals do not seem to adhere to the valid rules? Metals are usually considered to be solid, unbreakable materials that conduct electricity and exhibit a typical metallic sheen ...

About 7 interstellar objects pass through the inner solar system every year, study estimates

Oumuamua as it appeared using the William Herschel Telescope on the night of October 29. Credit: Queen's University Belfast/William Herschel Telescope. In October 19th, 2017, the first interstellar object ever detected flew past Earth on its way out of the ...