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This photo provided by NASA shows Boeing's Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module's forward port on July 3, seen from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docked to the adjacent port.

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NASA delays next crew launch to buy time at the space station for troubled Starliner

Starliner's test pilots, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, should have returned by mid-June. NASA is weighing its options for returning the two, including a ride home in a rival SpaceX capsule.

August 08, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams wave as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on June 5.

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Opinion: Think you have a rough travel story? Try 52 days stuck in space

Two astronauts have been hanging out on the International Space Station since last month, waiting for the Boeing capsule that got them there to be repaired to bring them home.

July 27, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
In this photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore (left) and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13.

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NASA still doesn't know when two astronauts will be able to come home

NASA still is not sure when two astronauts might come home in Boeing's new Starliner spacecraft.

July 25, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the mission released 25 views of cosmic objects ranging from supernova remnants to galaxy clusters and more.

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Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope

NASA is facing a tight budget and wants to wrap up the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but astronomers don't want to see the 25-year-old X-ray space telescope mission go.

July 23, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
This image from video provided by SpaceX shows the upper stage engine of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which blasted off from California on Thursday.

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SpaceX rocket accident leaves the company's Starlink satellites in the wrong orbit

A SpaceX rocket has failed for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellites in an orbit so low that they're doomed to fall through the atmosphere and burn up.

July 13, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Two interacting galaxies, dubbed the Penguin and the Egg, are seen in more clarity and detail than ever, after NASA released a new image (right) from the James Webb Space Telescope. An older image from the Hubble Space Telescope is seen at left.

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2 galaxies, the Penguin and the Egg, get a family portrait thanks to Webb Telescope

The galaxies' fanciful names belie their actual ages: In this case of the Penguin and the Egg, it’s the Egg that came first.

July 12, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
The star cluster Omega Centauri contains millions of stars. The movement of some stars suggests that an intermediate-sized black hole lies at its center.

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Astronomers spot a mysterious black hole nestled in a cluster of stars

A report from Nature shows that astronomers may have found a medium-sized black hole, a kind they've long looked for.

July 10, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
In this image made from video provided by NASA, CHAPEA commander Kelly Haston speaks in front of other crew members at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Saturday.

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Volunteers who lived in a NASA-created Mars replica for over a year have emerged

The four crew members entered the 3D-printed Mars replica on June 25, 2023, as part of a NASA experiment to observe how humans would fare living on the Red Planet.

July 07, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez
The Starliner spacecraft docked with the International Space Station and orbiting 262 miles above Egypt's Mediterranean coast on June 13. NASA says additional testing is needed before Starliner can return to Earth.

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  • Space

'We’re not stuck.' Why Boeing’s Starliner isn’t returning to Earth (yet)

The return of Starliner has been indefinitely delayed, but NASA and Boeing say the astronauts will use the spaceship to get home — eventually.

July 03, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Boeing crew flight test astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, center, pose with Expedition 71 flight engineers Mike Barratt, left, and Tracy Dyson, both NASA astronauts, in their spacesuits aboard the International Space Station's Quest airlock on June 24, 2024.

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  • Science

NASA astronauts to extend space station stay as engineers troubleshoot Boeing capsule

Problems with the capsule's propulsion system, used to maneuver the spacecraft, prompted NASA and Boeing to delay the flight home several times while they analyzed the trouble.

June 29, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The Chang'e 6 capsule landed in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia on Tuesday.

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China has just returned the first-ever samples from the far side of the moon

The far side of the moon looks very different from the near side, and with the Chang'e 6 mission, scientists are hoping to learn why.

June 26, 2024
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Jets of gas being released from newly forming stars are captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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  • Science

From planets to black holes, we look at the oddities of space

Space Camp is a new series about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe by NPR's science podcast Short Wave. Check out the rest of the series.

June 26, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
A robotic arm at the International Space Station is seen releasing a pallet packed with batteries in 2021. NASA says a metal alloy stanchion from that flight equipment is what landed in a Florida home.

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  • National

A Florida family is suing NASA after a piece of space debris crashed through their home

The space agency determined that the material was a metal alloy stanchion used on “NASA flight support equipment.”

June 24, 2024
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  • Joe Hernandez
Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA's DART spacecraft 11 seconds before the impact that shifted its path through space, in the first test of asteroid deflection.

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  • Science

Asteroid headed toward Earth? NASA simulation explores how the nation might respond

NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it

June 21, 2024
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
The Boeing Starliner spacecraft prepares to dock with the International Space Station for the first time on June 6, 2024.  (NASA via AP)

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  • Space

NASA says it accidentally sent out an emergency signal meant for training purposes

A NASA simulation accidentally aired on the space agency's livestream. NASA said all crew members are healthy, safe and preparing for a spacewalk scheduled for Thursday.

June 13, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
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