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Boeing finds new problems with Starliner space capsule and delays first crewed launch

9:26pm June 01, 2023

by Russell Lewis

Boeing was set to launch its first astronauts into space next month. But engineers found flammable tape and problems with the capsule's parachutes. The Starliner program has been plagued by delays.

Some of the constellations that are visible from the Northern Hemisphere at different times of the year.

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Think you're a Taurus? Earth's wobble sees things differently

10:19am May 04, 2023

by Regina G. Barber

Our view of the constellations has changed since they were first mapped thousands of years ago. That new perspective could also mess with your horoscope.

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This combination of photos shows, from left, astronauts Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch, and Reid Wiseman.

These are the 4 astronauts who'll take a trip around the moon next year

5:42pm April 03, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

The group will fly on NASA's Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon for the first time 50 years and establish a long-term presence there.

As more robots and people travel to the moon in coming years, some researchers believe it's time to set a lunar time standard.

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If daylight saving time seems tricky, try figuring out the time on the moon

9:55am March 11, 2023

Scientists are pondering how to tell time on other celestial bodies. It's a lot harder than you might think.

This imagery from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after NASA's DART spacecraft smashed into the asteroid's surface.

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Astronomers still have their eyes on that asteroid NASA whacked

5:00am March 04, 2023

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid, directly altering its path through space. Scientists are still studying the space rock to learn more.

Members of Crew-6 — (L-R) Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, Sultan Al-Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates, and NASA astronauts Warren Hoburg and Stephen Bowen — pose after arriving at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on February 21, 2023 in Florida. Each of their flight suits has numerous patches - including one designed specifically for this mission to the International Space Station.

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Every space crew needs a mission patch. This company has designed NASA's for 50 years

5:00am February 24, 2023

by Brendan Byrne

Since the first days of the space program, astronauts wear a special patch specific to each mission. A small North Carolina company has designed them all since the Apollo lunar launches.

Mourners left a makeshift memorial outside NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston after the Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003.

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Twenty years after the Columbia disaster, a NASA official reflects on lessons learned

10:10am February 01, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

Seven astronauts died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry on Feb. 1, 2003. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks back on the tragedy and how it shaped the agency.

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NASA's InSight Mars lander is covered in dust in its final selfie, taken on April 24. The following month its robotic arm was put into resting position, aka "retirement pose."

Goodnight, sweet spacecraft: NASA's InSight lander may have just signed off from Mars

1:54pm December 20, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

InSight's end has long been in sight, with NASA warning that it would likely be inoperative by the end of the year. The lander went quiet this weekend and shared a tweet it said might be its last.

A man watches a meteor during the Geminid meteor shower over Brimham Rocks in North Yorkshire.

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A spectacular meteor shower called the Geminids will peak on Tuesday evening

10:41am December 13, 2022

by Roshan Fernandez

The Geminids meteor shower, one of the best and most reliable of the year, will peak on Tuesday night.

NASA's Orion Capsule splashes down after a successful uncrewed Artemis I Moon Mission on Sunday, seen from aboard the USS Portland in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.

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NASA's Artemis I returns from the moon with hopes to get astronauts back there soon

6:33pm December 11, 2022

by Ashley Ahn

The successful splashdown of the spacecraft with no humans aboard keeps NASA's Artemis mission on track to put the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.