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Moon joy at Jupiter | Space photo of the day for May 7, 2026

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a photo of Jupiter's moon Thebe.

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Here's what 6 years of driving on Mars did to the wheels on NASA's Curiosity rover (video)

A new video released by NASA/JPL documents six years of Curiosity rover's wheels while driving on Mars.

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How do the biggest black holes in the universe form? Ripples in spacetime provide a clue

Merging black holes and neutron stars have unusual oval orbits prior to colliding and merging, which challenge the laws of physics.

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Artemis 2 moon launch brought nearly 350,000 people to Florida's Space Coast

About 346,000 U.S. visitors — roughly the equivalent of the population of Honolulu, Hawaii — came to Florida's Space Coast during the Artemis 2 launch campaign.

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Should Saturn's huge moon Titan be humanity's next destination, after the moon and Mars?

Next month, a first-of-its-kind gathering will blueprint an eventual crewed trek to tantalizing Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons.

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How an exoplanet odd couple survived by traveling in from the cold together

By probing the atmosphere of a mini-Neptune exoplanet, the James Webb Space Telescope has found that it formed much farther from its star than it is today, possibly explaining the origin of many other mini-Neptunes in the process.

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Europe's 1st reusable spacecraft 'Space Rider' clears key hurdles on the road to launch

Space Rider, a novel spacecraft concept from the European Space Agency, is passing key milestones in its tests and qualifications to bring the vehicle to flight readiness.

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'Whatever Russia is testing, it's sophisticated': 2 Russian satellites get within 10 feet of each other in orbit

Two Russian satellites got within 10 feet (3 meters) of each other recently, demonstrating a sophisticated set of orbital maneuvering skills.

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3 puzzles of our universe could be solved with this new dark matter theory

A new recipe of dark matter that interacts with itself could be the solution to three separate and vastly different cosmic puzzles.

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'Thor' hammered down 15 years ago, and it's still the only Marvel movie to do the God of Thunder justice

In 2011, Thor proved himself more than worthy in his roaring MCU debut. Since then, the thunder has turned into laughter.

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Sci-fi RPG 'Exodus''s combat looks and feels like 'Mass Effect', but the dialogue system could be a big upgrade (video)

Jun Aslan and Phaedra share a quiet chat in Archetype Entertainment's latest Community Update.

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Why does NASA's Curiosity rover have a 'lucky penny' on Mars? | Space photo of the day for May 6, 2026

Providing good luck to the first Martian to find it.

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10 hidden spots in Spain to see the rare sunset total solar eclipse on Aug. 12

From desert badlands to hilltop villages, these off-the-beaten-track locations offer clear views of Spain's rare sunset total solar eclipse.

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Scientists created one of the largest simulations of our universe ever — about the size of 500,000 HD movies

The FLAMINGO project helps scientists explore how galaxies, dark matter and cosmic structures evolved over billions of years.

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Solar activity makes space junk crash to Earth faster

Scientists studied how space junk moved in orbit over a 36-year span, finding that increased solar activity caused it to fall to Earth faster.

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Mexico City is sinking up to 14 inches per year, satellite images show

Mexico City is one of the fastest subsiding cities in the world, dropping by up to 14 inches every year.

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NASA just released 12,000 photos from Artemis 2. Here are our top picks

You could spend hours scrolling through the thousands of photos just released by NASA from the Artemis 2 moon mission.

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Watch SpaceX Starlink train circle Earth in amazing satellite video

A video captured by a newly launched SpaceX Starlink satellite shows us what it's like to zoom above our beautiful blue planet.

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A tiny 'plutino' world beyond Neptune has grown a mysterious atmosphere, and we don't know how

A trans-Neptunian object was found to possess a surprising thin atmosphere after astronomers witnessed the object occult a distant star.

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Moon lander preps for the lunar surface | Space photo of the day for May 6, 2026

Blue Origin's MK1 moon lander has passed its tests in the vacuum chamber as NASA continues to develop the hardware needed to return astronauts to the moon.

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'SOL Shogunate' is a samurai space opera set on the moon, but with an aerospace engineer making sure it's 'getting the science right'

Chaos Manufacturing CEO Guy Costantini and aerospace engineer Taylore McClurg tell us about the process of creating a believable but striking lunar adventure.

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These 2 companies want to start removing space junk from orbit in 2027

Two private companies are partnering up to establish a repeatable debris removal service for low Earth orbit, and they want to debut it in 2027.

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Former NASA chief Jim Bridenstine takes over as CEO of Quantum Space

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is the new CEO of Quantum Space, a company developing maneuverable spacecraft for use by the U.S. military and commercial operators.

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NASA is making a powerful new ion engine to send astronauts to Mars — and it just passed its 1st test

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium metal vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than the ion engine on the Psyche mission.

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NASA wants to land astronauts on the moon in 2028. Will SpaceX's Starship or Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander be ready in time?

After Artemis 2, NASA's moon return hinges on two unproven commercial landers, each of which faces major technical and timeline challenges.

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