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India to send first astronaut on mission to International Space Station

Shubhanshu Shukla is part of four-person mission launching on Tuesday from US

The Guardian - UK

SpaceX launching private Ax-4 astronaut mission to ISS early June 25: Watch live!

SpaceX is planning to launch the Ax-4 private astronaut mission early Wednesday, June 25, kicking off a two-week stint aboard the ISS.

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Astronauts track huge dust clouds over Canada and US | On the ISS this week June 2-6, 2025

Preparations for the arrival of a visiting crew, the continued study of how humans adapt to microgravity and more highlight the sixth week of Expedition 73 on the International Space Station.

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See the moon shine with famous red star Antares in the southern sky on June 9

Antares is a red supergiant star located 400 light-years from Earth.

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China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft sends home 1st photo as it heads for mysterious 'quasi-moon' asteroid

China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million kilometers (1.9 million miles) from Earth.

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Chris Hadfield: ‘Worst space chore? Fixing the toilet. It’s even worse when it’s weightless’

Canada’s most famous astronaut on his unusual party trick, predictions on extraterrestrial life and favourite space movies

The Guardian - AU

SpaceX fires up Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship's 10th test flight (video)

SpaceX conducted a static-fire test with one of its Super Heavy boosters today (June 6), part of the prep work for the next test flight of the Starship megarocket.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 164 — Goodbye NASA?

On Episode 164 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss these concerning times for NASA with Casey Dreier, the Chief of Space Policy for The Planetary Society.

Space

'Flying Banana' traveling 125 mph fires laser into sky and catches aurora hunters off guard (video)

"The first time I spotted it, I thought at first it may have been a rare form of blue aurora but then realised it was moving too quickly."

Space

SpaceX launches Sirius XM radio satellite to orbit, lands rocket on ship at sea (video, photos)

SpaceX launched the SXM-10 satellite for SiriusXM early Saturday morning (June 7), adding another spacecraft to the company's broadcasting constellation.

Space

Powerful solar telescope unveils ultra-fine magnetic 'curtains' on the sun's surface

The sharpest images ever captured of the sun reveal intricate magnetic structures dancing across its surface.

Space

Catch Jupiter and Mercury side by side in the evening sky this week

The solar system's largest and smallest planets will greet one another in the eastern sky.

Space

European Mars orbiter spies crumbling crater 'soaked in layers of Martian history' (photo)

The Mars Express probe captured a striking new view of a Martian crater that holds clues to the planet's dynamic history spanning billions of years.

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Launch of Amazon’s 2nd batch of Kuiper internet satellites scrubbed due to rocket issue

The planned June 16 launch of the second batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites was scrubbed due to an issue with a ULA Atlas V rocket.

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A hidden 'super-Earth' exoplanet is dipping in and out of its habitable zone

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.

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Why does NASA's Perseverance rover keep taking pictures of this maze on Mars?

NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.

Al Jazeera

Japanese firm declares lunar mission a failure after crash landing

The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing.

The Independent UK

Musk threatens to decommission a key space station link for NASA

Elon Musk is threatening to decommission a capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station for NASA

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The Guardian - US

Musk backs down on threat to retire SpaceX Dragon spacecraft amid Trump dispute

World’s richest person says craft, which Nasa relies on to take astronauts to ISS, won’t be decommissioned after pleas from X users

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Brand-new SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrives at pad for June 10 astronaut launch (photo)

The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that will fly the Ax-4 astronaut mission has arrived at its pad ahead of a planned June 10 launch.

The Guardian - US

Second attempt by Japanese company to land on moon likely ends in failure

Resilience would have made history as the first non-US commercial lander to make a successful touchdown

Space

Private Japanese spacecraft crashes into moon in 'hard landing,' ispace says

Japan's private Resilience lunar lander went dark just before it was scheduled to touch down on the moon today (June 5), raising doubts about the venture's success.

Space

James Webb Space Telescope reveals largest-ever panorama of the early universe

Astronomers unveiled the James Webb Space Telescope's largest view yet of the early universe in a richly detailed catalog of nearly 800,000 galaxies.

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Don’t miss Spica shine with the waxing gibbous moon tonight

Spica is a binary star system located 250 light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.

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Astronomers discover most powerful cosmic explosions since the Big Bang

Astronomers discovered a new class of cosmic explosions known as "extreme nuclear transients" that are the most powerful phenomena known, aside from the Big Bang.

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