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Perseverance completed a marathon on Mars – and was filmed from space

Perseverance completed a marathon on Mars – and was filmed from space

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NASA's Gamma rover covered 42.195 kilometers in five years and four months. A day before the milestone, the HiRISE camera captured it from orbit around Mars, as a tiny dot surrounded by the tracks of its wheels.
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Blue Origin

Blue Origin addresses investors for the first time: seeks to raise $10 billion

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Blue Origin, which has been funded primarily by Jeff Bezos since its inception, is reportedly in talks to raise $10 billion in private capital. The money is intended to support expanded launch operations, lunar missions, satellite networks, and rehabilitation.
Starship Human Landing System illustration from NASA's Human Landing System page. Credit: NASA/SpaceX

As space transforms from an engineering vision to a stock market asset, SpaceX raises $75 billion in the largest IPO in history

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The largest IPO in Wall Street history marks a new phase in space commercialization: more capital for Starship and Starlink, but also questions about dependence on a single company, impact on astronomy, filling low-Earth orbit, and economic risks.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft is docked at the International Space Station above Earth.

NASA has ordered five astronauts to prepare for evacuation from the space station following an air leak that has been fixed in the meantime.

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The alert on the International Space Station lasted about two hours and was lifted after an assessment of the situation. Roscosmos reported two leaks in the Russian Zvezda module, but said there was no immediate danger to the crew and that the pressure on the station was stable.
June 25, 2024: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launcher is seen launching the GOES-U weather satellite for NOAA from NASA's LC-39A launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Not just an IPO: SpaceX seeks to fund the next phase of the space economy

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Starship V3 launches from Starbase in Texas on the 12th test flight of the Starship system. Credit: SpaceX

Starship V3 takes off for the first time: SpaceX is getting closer to the moon, but there's still a long way to go

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SpaceX has completed the first test flight of its Starship V3, the giant rocket that will be used in NASA's Artemis program in the future. The flight achieved most of its goals, but engine failures show that the path to success is still uncertain.
A rendering of NASA's Psyche spacecraft near Mars, during a gravity maneuver to help it continue its journey to the metallic asteroid Psyche. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

NASA's Psyche spacecraft passes Mars on its way to a rare metallic asteroid

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The Psyche spacecraft passed within 4,500 kilometers of Mars to receive a gravity boost. The pass was also used to calibrate cameras and scientific instruments in preparation for its arrival at the asteroid Psyche in 2029.
The Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis program. The Israel Space Agency has issued a call for proposals for Israeli nanosatellite experiments and payloads for possible integration into future NASA missions. Credit: NASA

The Israeli Space Agency is looking for Israeli nanosatellites and payloads for the next Artemis missions

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New call invites researchers, academic institutions, and companies in Israel to propose experiments and CubeSat payloads for possible integration into NASA's Artemis III–V missions
Artist's illustration of one of the Voyager spacecraft. Credit: altech/NASA-JPL

NASA turned off an instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the life of the interstellar mission

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After nearly 49 years of operation, NASA has turned off the LECP instrument on Voyager 1 to conserve power. The spacecraft, more than 25 billion kilometers from Earth, will continue to collect data using two scientific instruments
Seconds before the Artemis II spacecraft lands. Screenshot: NASA

Live broadcast: Artemis II landed safely

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Orion's first crewed deep-space test flight tested launch, flight, return and recovery systems — paving the way for the next phase of the lunar return program
On April 7, 2026, the Artemis II crew was captured in a rare moment of shared embrace inside the Orion spacecraft on the way back from the Moon. Pictured are Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Reed Wiseman, and Victor Glover. The crew members were selected in April 2023 and trained together for three years in preparation for the mission. Photo: NASA

Artemis II Day 9: Orion orbit correction complete, preparing for atmospheric reentry and landing near San Diego

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In the past 24 hours, NASA completed another correction maneuver on the way back from the moon, restored contact after a brief communications glitch, and accelerated final preparations for atmospheric entry. Now all eyes are on the heat shield.
Earth setting after Artemis II completes its passage behind the Moon. NASA photo

Artemis II Day 7: Artemis II released the first images from its lunar orbit and continues safely on its return journey

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Artemis II crew members celebrate the completion of the passage behind the moon, April 7, 2026. Photo: NASA

Artemis II on the way back: Completed transit around the moon, human distance record broken, and viewing a solar eclipse

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Update 7/4 14:00: Orion passed behind the moon, came within 6,546 kilometers of the surface, set a new record of 406,770 kilometers from Earth, and also photographed areas from the far side.
The Moon as photographed from the window of the Orion spacecraft at the end of Artemis II's fifth flight day (April 6, 2026), shortly before the historic pass around the far side of the Moon. Credit: NASA.

Live broadcast: The decisive day – Artemis II preparing to pass around the far side of the Moon

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NASA reports that Orion is on a precise trajectory for its passage around the moon on April 6, 2026. During the orbit, astronauts are expected to break the record for the distance humans have traveled from Earth and pass behind the moon.
Astronaut Christina Koch controls the Orion spacecraft during a manual flight test on day four of the Artemis II mission. She is flanked by Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and astronaut Victor Glover. Credit: NASA

Artemis II Day 4: Crew practices manual flight of Orion and approaches historic flyby around the moon tomorrow

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NASA reported that Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen took manual control of the spacecraft for 41 minutes, while the entire crew completed scientific preparations for the lunar flyby on April 6. At the same time, NASA
A view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid Weisman from one of the Orion spacecraft windows after completing the lunar orbit injection maneuver on April 2, 2026. The image shows two auroras, at the top right and bottom left, while the **Zodiac Light** is visible at the bottom right as the Earth obscures the Sun. Credit: NASA

Artemis II Day 3: Orion continues precisely toward the Moon without need for trajectory corrections; the receding Earth is fully imaged

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After the lunar orbit injection, the mission control center determined that the spacecraft was already on the correct path to pass near the moon on April 6, and the team began preparations for the scientific observation window around the moon.
An image of the Artemis II spacecraft orbiting the Moon. The transit is expected on April 6. Photo: NASA

Artemis II left Earth orbit and headed for the Moon

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Artemis II has completed a lunar injection maneuver and left Earth orbit. The Orion spacecraft and its four crew members are making their way to the Moon in a historic NASA mission.
Asteroid Ryugu: All five canonical bases of DNA and RNA were identified in samples returned from it by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, a finding that strengthens the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to the starting materials for life on Earth.

All five bases of DNA and RNA were found in the asteroid Ryugu

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New research on Ryugu samples, combined with findings from the asteroid Bennu, from which the samples were brought to Earth, strengthens the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids provided the early Earth with important starting materials for the chemistry of life.
Atmospheric layers: The region where the plume was measured is above the stratosphere, a range where processes also indirectly affect ozone chemistry and the radiation balance. Credit: NOAA

First study directly links metallic contamination in the atmosphere to rocket return from space

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Researchers have detected and measured a pollution plume following the breakup of a Falcon 9 rocket stage in the upper atmosphere (approximately 80–110 km) after an uncontrolled reentry in February 2025—and warn that commercial space activity is expanding faster than oversight
Dr. Sian Proctor on stage at the Ilan Ramon Conference, Tel Aviv 1/28/2026. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Dr. Sean “Leo” Proctor at the Ilan Ramon Conference: “Art is part of the way to open up space to everyone”

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Inspiration4 mission pilot recounts how a poem she wrote as part of the “Prosperity” seat competition became the “JEDI Space” vision, and explains why combining creativity, science, and diverse representation is a prerequisite for the future of manned space
Michael Lopez-Alegria, AXIUM SPACE at the 21st Space Conference in Memory of Ilan Ramon, 2026. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

After the International Space Station: Axiom, Vast and Starlab compete for the commercial space stations of the next decade

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Three leading initiatives presented at the Ilan Ramon International Conference; NASA clarifies that the goal is one or more stations and the purchase of services from one or more companies
Image caption: The four Crew-12 crew members pose in pressure suits at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne. From left to right: Andrei Fedyaev, Jack Hathaway, Jessica Meir and Sophie Adeno. Credit: SpaceX.

NASA and SpaceX Crew-12 enters isolation ahead of launch to space station

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The rescue of Mike Pink, one of the four astronauts aboard CREW DRAGON, January 15, 2026. From NASA Television

Crew-11 returned to Earth more than a month earlier than planned due to a “medical concern”

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NASA announced last week that it was bringing the return forward due to a “medical concern” with one of the crew members, which the agency said could be better diagnosed on the ground. The agency stressed that the condition was stable, but refrained from
jsc2025e041955 (2-26-2025) — The official portrait of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission. Front row, left to right: Pilot Mike Finke and Commander Zina Cardman, both NASA astronauts. Back row, left to right: Mission Specialist Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos and Mission Specialist Kimiya Yue of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). Photo: NASA

NASA postpones spacewalk at space station due to medical incident; Crew-11 mission cut short under consideration

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The agency said the condition of a crew member was “stable” but did not release details; maintenance and electrical upgrades outside the station have been postponed. There are concerns that the station’s operations could be affected without an orderly replacement of crew members.
Illustration from RSC Energia's patent documents for a rotating space station: Manned modules rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity using centrifugal force.

Russia has patented a rotating space station that will simulate artificial gravity

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RSC Energia patent documents suggest manned modules that would rotate around a central axis and generate up to about 0.5g; experts note that a patent is not an implementation plan, and that docking to a rotating station is a major challenge

Blue Origin launched NASA's ESCAPADE to Mars – landing the New Glenn heavy launcher on a drone ship for the first time

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After delays due to weather and solar storms, the heavy-lift launcher lifted off from Cape Canaveral, placed a pair of NASA satellites in orbit and successfully returned the booster to Jacklyn – a milestone in the competition with SpaceX.
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt samples a rock at Station 7, at the foot of the North Mountain in the Taros-Littrow Valley. The large rock was dislodged by a powerful moonquake about 28.5 million years ago, likely the result of activity on the Lee-Lincoln Fault. Credit: NASA/JSC/ASU

Moonquakes could threaten future manned missions and infrastructure

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New study reveals that moderate-intensity tremors associated with the Lee-Lincoln fault in the Taros-Lytaro Valley could endanger permanent bases as part of the Artemis program
An image of NASA's Preservation spacecraft observing the aurora borealis. Credit: Avi Blizovsky, via DALEE

The Perseverance rover once again recorded the aurora borealis on Mars

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Researchers present a second visible-light observation of Martian aurora and a new method for predicting it – with scientific implications and future preparation for astronauts
An artist's impression of the Japanese space mission Hayabusa2 landing on the surface of asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid is only 11 metres in diameter – almost a third smaller than previously estimated – and completes a rotation every five minutes, faster than expected. The image shows an updated size comparison between the asteroid and the spacecraft. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser. Asteroid: T. Santana-Ros et al. Hayabusa2 model: SuperTKG (CC-BY-SA).

Will Hayabusa 2 succeed in landing? Its target is a tiny, faster-than-expected asteroid

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Scanning electron microscope photograph of a micrometeorite impact crater with a particle of material from the asteroid Bennu.

The asteroid Bennu is a time capsule of materials that testify to its origin and the changes that have occurred over billions of years.

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Three papers by a team of researchers who analyzed samples from OSIRIS-REx, led by the University of Arizona, reveal unprecedented details about the composition and history of asteroid Bennu

Houston, we have a problem: James Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 and the hero who returned the crew safely, has passed away.

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Lovell, who flew on four space missions and was one of the first to orbit the moon, has died at the age of 97. His cool-headed leadership of the Apollo 13 mission became a global symbol of survival and cooperation, and his story was immortalized in the film
An artistic rendering of NASA's next-generation lunar rover on the surface of the moon. Credit: NASA

NASA's new lunar rover will search for ice, measure minerals, and reveal what lies beneath the surface

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Three scientific instruments will reveal water and minerals, enabling a deeper understanding of the Moon ahead of humans' return to it as part of the Artemis program
A four-legged robot learned to change its movement style to traverse a forest and jump over obstacles

Second failure for Japanese iSpace: Resilience probe crashes during moon landing

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The twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, are now traveling through interstellar space at speeds of over XNUMX kilometers per hour. This visualization shows one of the spacecraft moving away from the solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech

Voyager 1's "dead" spin engines pulsed again after 20 years – just in time for antenna upgrade

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NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been successfully reactivating “dead” propellants since 2004, saving the mission at the last minute before an antenna upgrade caused a long-term loss of contact.
Infrared map of the lunar surface showing water absorption and crater surfaces. Thought for 4 seconds The false-color images show areas where water was found in a young lunar crater on the far side of the moon, as recorded by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument on the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission.

DARPA solicits proposals for small lunar launcher to test low-altitude maneuvers and detect water

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After delivering ten NASA science and technology payloads to the near side of the Moon through the CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and NASA's Artemis operation, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander captured this image of a sunset from the surface of the Moon. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

NASA captures sunset on the moon in stunning leaping images of dust and light (4K)

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Artist's impression of one of the Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA will shut down instruments on Voyager spacecrafts to save power

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On February 24, 2025, the radiation sensor system on Voyager 1 was shut down, and on March 24, the same system will be shut down on Voyager 2.
The moment of the malfunction that caused the Starship spacecraft to break apart during the eighth test, March 6, 2025. Screenshot, SpaceX

SpaceX Starship explodes again

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SpaceX Starship explodes again
The Athena spacecraft during preparations for landing on the moon. Photo: Intuitive Machines

The Athena probe landed near the moon's south pole, but communication with it is problematic

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Blue Ghost lander on the lunar surface. There are two other active private lunar missions, photo: Firefly Aerospace

Second private landing on the moon: Blue Ghost lands safely

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The Firefly lunar lander has successfully landed in the Mare Crisium region on the near side of the Moon, carrying NASA science and technology instruments as part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
Visible coronal loops observed by the TRACE spacecraft. Credit: NASA/TRACE

NASA Just Found the Sun's Secret Warning Before Massive Solar Outbursts

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This discovery could help NASA and other organizations protect astronauts, satellites, and technologies on the ground from the potentially harmful effects of space weather.
The European Space Agency's (ESA) groundbreaking Prova-3 mission has successfully begun its formation flight phase, with two satellites now maintaining a precise 150-metre separation in orbit. This precision will enable the creation of artificial solar eclipses, providing unprecedented views of the Sun's corona. Credit: ESA-P. Carril

The European Space Agency's Prova-3 probes have separated from each other to continue their historic mission

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For the first time in history: Two probes will maintain a distance of 150 meters in orbit, creating artificial solar eclipses and enabling groundbreaking exploration of the solar corona
Starship Flight 7 mission patch, credit: SpaceX,

FAA investigates Starship's seventh test flight explosion following reports of property damage

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A fuel leak caused the upper stage of a Starship to explode in mid-air, leaving debris over the Turks and Caicos Islands. The FAA and SpaceX are investigating the incident to improve launch safety.
Fire show resulting from the disintegration of the second stage of the Starship spacecraft. From social networks, Section 27A of the Copyright Law

Another failure for SPACEX's Starship spacecraft: The booster landed successfully, but the spacecraft exploded

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A Starship probe launched from Texas broke apart minutes after liftoff, but the "Super Hubble" booster successfully landed on metal arms on the launch pad.
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft will perform an acceleration maneuver near Mars and also explore it. Figure: European Space Agency.

The engines of the spacecraft Hera were ignited on its journey towards the asteroid Didymus

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Hera - the European Space Agency's asteroid exploration mission will once again reach the asteroid it visited and which was diverted by the DART spacecraft
NASA is addressing Voyager 1's latest communication problems, working to understand and fix the transmitter shutdown by the spacecraft's defense system. Credit: Caltech/NASA-JPL

24 billion km from Earth, NASA's Voyager 1 breaks its silence

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On October 24, NASA was able to re-establish contact with the Voyager 1 spacecraft after a brief communication blackout. Recently, Voyager 1 turned off one of its two radio transmitters, and the NASA team is now working to identify the cause
Workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center move the parts of the SLS rocket that will be used to launch the Artemis manned spacecraft to the moon. Photo: NASA

The Rocket Factory: A Look at NASA's Plans for the Moon and Beyond

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NASA is upgrading Kennedy Space Center facilities to support the assembly of SLS rockets for the Artemis missions, which aim to land the next astronauts on the moon, using innovative technologies to improve the assembly process.
Sonny Williams smiles for the camera in the middle of maintenance work on the Kivu Laboratory Module of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA

Goodbye Starliner, Hello Soyuz: The International Space Station's busy week

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Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sonny Williams became full crew members on the International Space Station
The astronauts of Polaris Dawn put on the special space suits developed by SpaceX and designed for an environment saturated with radiation before the launch. Photo: NASA/SPACEX

Historic launch: SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission in which the first private spacewalk is expected

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Artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft against deep space. More than 7.3 billion kilometers from Earth, the spacecraft sees areas of the universe that would otherwise be too dim. Credit: NASA, APL, SwRI, Serge Brunier (ESO ), Marc Postman (STScI), Dan Durda.

Exploring the Dark Universe: Breakthroughs from NASA's New Horizons Deep Space Probe

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