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It’s been another week of enthusiastic space chatter and we’ve got some highlights for you. Be sure to sign up for the Space.com forums and join the discussions today!

Follow along with me, Space.com senior writer Chelsea Gohd, as I become an analog astronaut in a brand new documentary.

Follow along with me, Space.com senior writer Chelsea Gohd, as I become an analog astronaut in a brand new documentary.

On May 7, 1992, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on its first flight. See how it happened in our “On This Day In Space” series!

Scientists have observed a star wrapped around a supermassive black hole for the first time, providing evidence that an effect dubbed spaghettification occurs when stars venture too close to galaxy centers.

Ingenuity is scheduled to make its fifth Martian flight today (May 7), a jaunt that will be unlike anything the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper has attempted so far.

A Finnish-led team has new insights into auroral “dunes” first reported in scientific literature a year ago.

Astronomers have long struggled to pin down how long a day lasts on Venus, but new research suggests the difficulty stems not from flawed measurements but from real variations in the planet’s spin.