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Private Starlab space station moves into ‘full-scale development’ ahead of 2028 launch

Submit on Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 22:11

The Starlab commercial space station project is moving toward the production phase, having passed a key development milestone with NASA.

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Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses a threat to hit Earth, but we can still hit it — for science!

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Despite a brief panic, asteroid 2024 YR4 isn’t likely to hit us anytime soon, but we can still study the asteroid up close to help us understand these space rocks.

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‘Apollo 1’ director surprised by details of ill-fated mission in new documentary

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It was the opening scene of “Apollo 13” and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic “First Man.” It was also included in director Mark Craig’s “Last Man on the Moon,” inspiring “Apollo 1.”

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The far side of the moon was once a vast magma ocean, Chinese lunar lander confirms

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New findings from China’s Chang’e 6 lunar farside samples offer insights into the moon’s volcanic past and mantle evolution.

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Why NASA’s Starliner astronauts spent 9 months in space on a 10-day mission: A timeline

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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are on their way home from a nine-month space mission that was supposed to last just 10 days. Here’s a rundown of their eventful time off Earth.

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What time will NASA’s Starliner astronauts land with SpaceX’s Crew-9 today? How to watch live.

Submit on Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 16:11

SpaceX is poised to land its Crew Dragon Freedom with the two ISS crewmates who launched on it and two astronauts who arrived at the space station in June on Boeing’s Starliner. Here’s how to see it.

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Feel the burn with this amazing video of a Varda space capsule’s plunge through Earth’s atmosphere

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The final two minutes of the video show things really heating up.

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World’s largest digital camera to help new Vera Rubin Observatory make a ‘time-lapse record of the universe’ (video)

Submit on Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 03:11

A major milestone with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has been reached with the installation of the telescope’s enormous eye — the world’s largest digital camera.

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