Space medicine professionals in training consult with each other during a simulation exercise.
Katya Arquilla
Future space missions will fly farther and longer than ever before – which means crew members may need more involved medical care in space.
NASA/Liam Yanulis
There’s intense competition between the US and China to establish bases on the Moon.
The Hubble Space Telescope is nearing its 35th birthday.
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Hubble’s technical issues continue. But through some clever engineering, the telescope can continue operations with just 1 gyroscope.
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Aquaponics could help feed Martian colonies in the future and offer a sustainable food system on Earth.
Collecting the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule.
NASA/Keegan Barber
Scientists don’t often have the time to get all their equipment set up to study incoming meteors from space. Instead, they can study capsules from space missions as ‘artificial meteors.’
An artist’s depiction of the heliosphere, the Sun’s region of influence in space. Little is known of the actual shape of the heliosphere.
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An interstellar probe could help scientists answer fundamental questions about how the Sun influences Earth, space and other planets in the solar system.
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Here’s what’s going on to cause more widespread northern and southern lights.
Hunting for life on other worlds isn’t easy.
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It’s hard to look for something you’ve never seen before – and that might not even exist. But you have to start somewhere.
Nasa/Swift/Cruz deWilde
Analysis of two major cosmic blasts deepens the mystery of where the universe’s ‘heavy’ elements come from.
A lunar base on the Moon would include solar panels for power generation, and equipment for keeping astronauts alive on the surface.
ESA - P. Carril
The best spots on the Moon for lunar bases are the same spots where scientists want to build telescopes − can these two interests coexist?
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detects X-ray emissions from astronomical events.
NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan
2024 marks 25 years since NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory started detecting X-rays from energetic astronomical events.
“Cosmic cliffs” in the Carina nebula, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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You have the US space program to thank for some of the technology in your phone and laptop.
An illustration of a supermassive black hole.
NASA/JPL
Studying theoretical, fast-spinning black holes is helping physicists understand more about the elusive black holes out in the universe.
NASA
Solar storms can play havoc with electrical grids, satellites and railway lines.
WASP-69b closely orbits its sun.
W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko
Research on one exoplanet that’s rapidly losing its atmosphere is hinting to scientists why exoplanets tend to look a certain way.
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When rocks from space fall towards Earth, they usually don’t do any damage – here’s why.
An artist’s illustration of hydrogen disappearing from Venus.
Aurore Simonnet/ Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/ University of Colorado Boulder
Studying Venus’ water loss can help scientists better understand how planets go from potentially habitable to incapable of supporting life.
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Starliner is only the second vehicle to launch astronauts from US soil since the retirement of the shuttle in 2011.
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China’s Change'6 is going to explore the Moon’s far side and bring back precious lunar soil for scientists to study.
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on approach to the International Space Station during an uncrewed test in 2022.
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The Starliner launched June 5 after several delays, making it the first commercial crew craft that’s not SpaceX’s Dragon to lift off.