TOKYO — NASA officials say there is a “strong chance” that the next test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle will be uncrewed as work continues to fix issues with the spacecraft.
Category: 2. Space
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Hubble Snaps Galaxy Cluster’s Portrait
A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy cluster in question is Abell 209, located 2.8 billion light-years away in the constellation Cetus (the…
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China eyes the moon, Mars and space dominance
On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth.
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NASA’s Moon Rover Will Hunt for Ice, Map Minerals, and Reveal What Lies Beneath
NASA is gearing up for a bold new era of lunar exploration with three advanced instruments set to investigate the Moon’s surface and subsurface. Two will ride aboard the upcoming Lunar Terrain Vehicle—an agile, crew-capable rover—and one…
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Chang’e-6 Samples Reveal the Moon’s Farside Is Stranger Than We Thought
China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, specifically the massive South Pole–Aitken Basin. These ancient rocks have revealed a staggering story of planetary…
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Newly discovered interstellar object 'may be oldest comet ever seen'
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say.
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NASA Just Flew Through the Sun’s Atmosphere – And What It Saw Is Jaw-Dropping
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is revolutionizing our understanding of the Sun by flying closer than ever before, capturing jaw-dropping images from within the solar atmosphere. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured the most detailed images ever…
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Chang’e-6 unearths volcanic and magnetic mysteries on the Moon’s farside
The Moon’s near and far sides exhibit striking asymmetry — from topography and crustal thickness to volcanic activity — yet the origins of these differences long puzzled scientists. China’s Chang’e-6 mission, launched on May 3, 2024, changed…
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Curiosity Blog, Sols 4593-4594: Three Layers and a Lot of Structure at Volcán Peña Blanca
Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK
Earth planning date: Monday, July 7, 2025
A few planning sols ago, we spotted a small ridge in the landscape ahead of us. Ridges and…
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Senate spending bill that overrides proposed NASA cuts held up in committee
TOKYO — A Senate appropriations bill that rejected the administration’s proposed cuts to NASA is in limbo after a dispute among senators about an unrelated provision.
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