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NASA’s mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa takes off – National
A NASA spacecraft rocketed away Monday on a quest to explore Jupiter’s tantalizing moon Europa and reveal whether its vast ...

The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride
A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the night sky early ...

How to View the ‘Comet of the Century’ C/2023 A3
This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish. C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan–ATLAS ...

Billionaire Finally Launches on First Private Space-Walk Mission
One of the most ambitious space tourism missions in history has launched, with the all-commercial crew set to hit a ...

Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves
You could say that this is exactly what Isaac Newton’s picture of gravity does—giving a relation between an object’s mass ...

Boeing’s Starliner has made its return to Earth — without its astronauts – National
Boeing’s first astronaut mission ended Friday night with an empty capsule landing and two test pilots still in space, left ...

Moon GPS Is Coming | WIRED
“I refer to LunaNet as the big umbrella,” Gramling says. “It is an architecture that defines the standards that are ...

Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft
On Saturday NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed some strange noises emanating from a speaker inside the Starliner spacecraft. “I’ve got ...

John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly
At first we studied how my disabilities and prosthesis might affect my ability to meet the requirements in-flight. At a ...

James Webb telescope spots 6 rogue worlds, baffling scientists – National
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to make astonishing discoveries, this time pointing astronomers’ attention to six planet-sized rogue worlds that ...