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Russia to Leave the International Space Station After 2024

By that time, Russia plans to start creating the Russian Orbital Service Station (ROSS), a new space station. The implementation of this project will be the main priority of the domestic space industry.

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Two Large Asteroids Will Fly Past Earth This Weekend

Two large asteroids the size of a multi-story building will brush past our planet later this week. According to NASA, the space bodies will approach the Earth on July 29 and 30.

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James Webb Telescope Captured a New Image of Jupiter and Its Moons

The new image clearly shows the famous Great Red Spot, an Earth-sized storm that has been raging on the distant giant for centuries, and even some of the planet's thin rings.

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NASA Reveals Five More Breathtaking Images from the James Webb Space Telescope

After unveiling the first full-color image of space taken by the James Webb Space Telescope yesterday, NASA shared five more stunning and breathtaking images of stellar objects, including distant galaxies, nebulas, and other wonders of the universe.

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NASA Unveils First Full-Color Image Taken by the James Webb Space Telescope

The rest of the high-resolution color images will debut on July 12. The first five photos highlight James Webb's unprecedented scientific capabilities and should include pictures of galaxies, nebulas, and more.

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Rocket Lab Launched NASA's Capstone Mission to the Moon

It is expected that CAPSTONE will reach its destination by entering the lunar orbit in four months and stay there for at least six months.

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NASA's Perseverance Rover Has a Traveling Companion in the Form of a Pet Rock

The Perseverance rover has shared an image of its traveling companion – a pet rock that managed to find its way into the front left wheel of the rover in early February and has traveled more than eight and a half kilometers (5.3 miles) with it since then.

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James Webb Space Telescope Gets Hit by a Micrometeoroid

Since its launch in December 2021, the telescope has already been hit by at least four different micrometeoroids. However, the latest one was significantly larger than NASA engineers predicted during ground tests.

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NASA Will Create a Research Team to Study UFOs

According to NASA, the study will begin in early fall and is expected to last nine months. It will focus on identifying available UAP data, how best to collect future UAP data, and how NASA can use it to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.

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NASA Releases an Arcade-Style Game Called Roman Space Observer

The targets you will need to capture include orange and pink spirals or galaxies, blue ringed exoplanets, black holes, dark matter, white starburst supernovae, green rogue exoplanets, etc.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Two Spiral Galaxies

NASA unveiled a new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows two bright star-forming galaxies. The two galaxies are known as Arp 303. However, each galaxy has its individual name – IC 563 and IC 564.

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NASA Selects Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to Develop Next-Gen Spacesuits

NASA has selected two companies – Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace – that will develop and produce next-generation spacesuits for the upcoming Artemis Lunar Program and future missions to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Astronomers Discover a Planet That Constantly Burns

Nothing like 55 Cancri e exists in our solar system. Astronomers plan to observe the planet to determine how it rotates, whether it has an atmosphere, and where its hottest spot is located.

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NASA Shared a Video of the Ingenuity Helicopter's Longest Flight on Mars

On April 8, 2022, Ingenuity made its record 25th flight, traveling 704 meters at a maximum speed of 5.5 meters per second in 161.3 seconds. The video of the 161.3-second flight was sped up about five times, reducing its length to less than 35 seconds.

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Boeing's Starliner Spacecraft Successfully Returns to Earth

The spacecraft departed from the International Space Station and landed at White Sands Missile Range's Space Harbor in New Mexico. The landing was broadcast by Boeing on its YouTube channel, and NASA announced the news on its website.

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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Captured Lunar Eclipse From Space

Over the course of about three hours, the spacecraft made 86 1-millisecond exposures. They were then sent back to Earth to be combined into a video. In the resulting video, the Earth and its satellite can be seen about 360,000 km apart.

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Boeing's Starliner Spacecraft Successfully Docked to the ISS

Starliner is Boeing's spacecraft that was selected by NASA to participate in the Commercial Crew Program to develop transportation systems meant and transfer astronaut crews from the USA to the International Space Station and vice versa.

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Solar Orbiter Sends Back Amazing Images of the Sun

Solar Orbiter is a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA that was sent into space in 2020. The mission's task is to study the Sun's activity, its coronal mass ejections, magnetic fields ,and solar wind acceleration mechanisms.

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Scientists Managed to Successfully Grow Plants in Moon Soil

Researchers believe that this experiment is a major step toward making a long-term stay in habitats on the Moon possible for humans and solving the problem of food shortages on Earth in the distant future.

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NASA's InSight Lander Detects the Biggest Quake on Mars

Seismic waves passing through Martian crust, mantle and core provide invaluable information about their size, composition and structure, enabling a better understanding of the Red Planet's internal structure and past.

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The Alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Now Complete

It is now ready to move on to the next and final series of preparations before it begins its scientific work. The last phase of preparations is known as science instrument commissioning.

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SpaceX Launched Crew-4 Astronauts to the ISS

Crew-4 is SpaceX's fourth operational human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station for NASA as part of the Commercial Crew Program to support private space transportation companies.

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NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Finds Wreckage From Perseverance Rover's Landing

NASA notes that the coating on the outside of the backshell, the parachute, and the lines connecting the parachute to the spacecraft all survived their trip to the surface of Mars.

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Scientists Urge NASA to Send a Space Mission to Uranus

Specifically, the researchers are calling on NASA to create the Uranus Orbiter and Probe, or UOP. The mission concept involves sending a spacecraft into orbit around Uranus, along with a probe that will dive into the planet's atmosphere.

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Hubble Celebrated Its Birthday With an Image of the Hickson Compact Group 40

In the course of their journey through the universe, their paths crossed, and they are now are falling together in a gravitational dance until they inevitably merge.