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A medium fidelity Orion trainer is displayed at the Johnson Space Center’s Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility in Houston, Texas, on 5 August, 2022

All systems go in Houston as NASA prepares return to Moon

Artemis 1, an uncrewed test flight, will feature the first blastoff of the massive Space Launch System rocket, which will be the most powerful in the world when it goes into operation

This handout video grab taken and released on 9 August, 2022 by the Russian space agency Roscosmos shows the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the Khayyam satellite blasting off from a launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Russia launches Iranian satellite amid Ukraine war concerns

An Iranian satellite launched by Russia blasted off from Kazakhstan Tuesday and reached orbit amid controversy that Moscow might use it to boost its surveillance of military targets in Ukraine

Buzz Aldrin's Inflight Coverall Jacket, worn by him on his Apollo 11 mission to the Moon is on display 22 July, 2022 during a media preview at Sotheby’s in New York

Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 jacket sold for $2.7m

The jacket worn by US astronaut Buzz Aldrin during his 1969 flight to the Moon aboard Apollo 11 was sold at auction for $2.7 million in New York Tuesday, Sotheby's announced

The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, 4 October 2018.

Russia to quit International Space Station 'after 2024'

Moscow said Tuesday it was leaving the International Space Station "after 2024" amid tensions with the West, in a move analysts warned could lead to a halt of Russian-crewed flights

This file photo taken on 29 April 2021 shows a Long March 5B rocket, carrying China's Tianhe space station core module, lifting off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan province

China launches second of three space station modules

China launched on Sunday the second of three modules needed to complete its new space station, state media reported, the latest step in Beijing's ambitious space programme

The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula are seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe and released on 12 July 2022.

Webb telescope may have already found most distant known galaxy

Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have found a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist who analyzed the data said Wednesday

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First 'dormant' stellar black hole discovered by debunking team

A team of astrophysicists known for debunking previous supposed black holes announced a discovery of their own on Monday: the first "dormant" stellar-mass black hole spotted orbiting a star in a ...

Lamia Ashraf Maula

I will bring telescopes to the country

Lamia Ashraf Maula, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Dunlap Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, is included in the Canadian research team of the project. She is of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is packed up for shipment to its launch site in Kourou, French Guiana in an undated photograph at Northrop Grumman's Space Park in Redondo Beach, California

Webb space telescope opens door to discoveries still unimagined

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope's inaugural batch of images has opened a new chapter of cosmic exploration, but astronomers say the observatory's most consequential discoveries may well be ...

The "Cosmic Cliffs" of the Carina Nebula are seen in an image divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion, with data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe and released on 12 July 2022.

NASA draws back curtain on Webb space telescope's first full-colour images

NASA on Tuesday drew back the curtain on billions of years of cosmic evolution with the inaugural batch of photos from the largest, most powerful observatory ever launched to space, saying the ...

U.S. President Joe Biden applauds upon seeing the first images from the Webb Space Telescope during a briefing from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials at the White House in Washington, U.S., on 11 July, 2022

Space science Webb space telescope’s first full-colour image of distant galaxies unveiled

The $9 billion Webb observatory, the largest and most powerful space science telescope ever launched, was designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the known universe, ushering in a ...

A supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy

Newly discovered star takes 4-yrs to travel around black hole at centre of our galaxy

A total of five telescopes observed the star, with four of these five being combined into one large telescope to allow even more accurate and detailed observations

File Photo of astronauts.

Lost in space Astronauts struggle to regain bone density

The bone density lost by astronauts was equivalent to how much they would shed in several decades if they were back on Earth

This handout image released by NASA shows a rocket, carrying technology likened to a “mini Hubble” telescope, lifting off from Arnhem Space Centre in Australia late on 26 June, 2022. NASA’s first-ever launch from a commercial site outside of the United States blasted off from Australia’s Outback late on 26 June, in a “historic” moment for the country’s space industry

‘Historic’ as NASA launches ‘mini Hubble’ from Australian Outback

It is the first NASA rocket to launch from Australia since 1995, and the project was hailed as the start of a “new era” for the country’s space industry by prime minister Anthony Albanese

South Korea's homegrown space rocket Nuri blasts off from the Naro Space Centre in the southern coastal village of Goheung on 21 June, 2022

South Korea space rocket launch puts satellites in orbit

South Korea said Tuesday it had successfully launched its homegrown space rocket and placed a payload into orbit in a "giant leap" for the country's quest to become an advanced space-faring nation

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