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NASA astronaut Andre Douglas has been named the backup astronaut for three astronauts on NASA’s round-the-moon mission. Douglas was certified for liftoff earlier this year.

Perhaps the most popular example of space food that possibly never was, astronaut ice cream is now 50 years old. The crunchy, room-temperature treat was first sold to the public in 1974.

Mysterious dark matter could slosh over our planet like a wave. If it does, it may produce telltale radio waves in Earth’s atmosphere, new theoretical research suggests.

A desert-dwelling moss could survive the extremes of a Martian environment and bounce back every time.

The ‘heartbeats’ of rapidly spinning neutron stars are usually highly regular, but occasionally, the spin of these dead star pulsars ‘glitches.’ Now, a ‘twisted’ model could explain this mystery.

A Long March 7A rocket launched the ChinaSat-3A spacecraft on June 29, boosting China’s geostationary communications satellite fleet.

China’s Shenzhou 18 astronauts are getting ready to take another spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station.

SpaceX is set to launch yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida in the wee hours of Wednesday morning (July 3).