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Pilot declared ‘Mayday’ after flying through Musk rocket explosion

The explosion of a SpaceX rocket earlier this year put multiple passenger planes and hundreds of people in danger, new documents reveal.

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Asteroids Seen Colliding Near a Neighboring Star 25 Light-Years Away

And not for the first time, either.

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Artemis 2 astronauts rehearse countdown for upcoming moon launch

NASA is gearing up to send four Artemis astronauts on looping test flight around the moon in 2026.

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NASA loses contact with MAVEN, Perseverance continues roving around Jezero

In early December, NASA lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars…
The post NASA loses contact with MAVEN, Perseverance continues roving around Jezero appeared first on NASASpaceFlight.com.

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ESA's JUICE Mission Reveals More Activity from 3I/ATLAS

During November 2025, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) used five of its science instruments to observe 3I/ATLAS. The instruments collected information about how the comet is behaving and what it is made of.

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Cosmic rays from a nearby supernova may help explain Earth-like planets

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my research would eventually lead me to ask a question about the origin of Earth-like planets. Yet that is exactly where it brought me.

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Isaacman emphasizes accelerating NASA programs as he takes agency’s reins

New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he wants NASA to move faster on programs such as Artemis but acknowledged he needs time to get up to speed on NASA’s activities.
The post Isaacman emphasizes accelerating NASA programs as he takes agency’s reins appeared first on SpaceNews.

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The SpaceX IPO, space-based AI and dreams of Mars

The opening of space to human commercial activity is a prospect to be welcomed eagerly.

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Planet-eating stars hint at Earth's ultimate fate

A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets.

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Starship success, a private moon landing and more: The top 10 spaceflight stories of 2025

Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new rocket and the first-ever fully successful private moon landing.

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2025 Ursid meteor shower: All you need to know

Ursid meteor shower viewing info for 2025. The best time to watch is overnight the evening of December 21 through dawn. The most meteors might be before dawn.
The post 2025 Ursid meteor shower: All you need to know first appeared on EarthSky.

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Ursid meteor shower 2025 peaks tonight: Here's what to expect from the yuletide light show

Ursid shooting stars may be visible throughout the night on Dec. 21-22.

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How to Watch the Ursids Winter Solstice Meteor Shower

The Ursids this weekend are a winter solstice light show.

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Engineering the First Reusable Launchpads on the Moon

Engineers need good data to build lasting things. Even the designers of the Great Pyramids knew the limestone they used to build these massive structures would be steady when stacked on top of one another, even if they didn’t have tables of the compressive strength of those stones. But when attempti…

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There’s a new space race – will the billionaires win?

The commercialisation of the cosmos is already underway, and our current laws aren’t fit for purpose If there is one thing we can rely on in this world, it is human hubris, and space and astronomy are no exception.The ancients believed that everything revolved around Earth. In the 16th century, Cope…

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Proposed Space Station Could Be Deployed in a Single Launch

A prototype of Max Space's Thunderbird could launch as early as 2027.

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Astrophysicists map the invisible universe using warped galaxies

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard picture of the universe and show that even archival telescope images can unlock cosmic mysteries.

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