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NASA astronaut is hoping for a smoother ride home than 22 years ago
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is just a couple of days away from returning to Earth on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft after a seven-month stay at the International Space...
Astronaut’s 70th birthday will involve a space-based roller coaster ride
After just over seven months in space, NASA’s oldest serving astronaut, Don Pettit, is returning to Earth.
Pettit will travel home alongside Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just set a new record
Following a mission early on Monday, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket entered the record books by becoming the first one to launch and land...
James Webb observes a dying star creating a cosmic hourglass
This strange image may look like a cell dividing, or perhaps even a brain, but it’s neither of those things — it’s actually a space nebula, located 1,500...
The final view from one of Hubble’s instruments is this gorgeous nebula
When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light...
Astronomers enthralled as a hungry black hole wakes up and starts feeding
At the center of almost every galaxy lies a giant monster: a supermassive black hole that is ten of thousands or even millions of times the mass of...
