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Famed Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin has married a woman who works for him at the cool age of 93 in a ceremony that took place on his birthday.
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Buzz Aldrin Marries His Employee at the Young Age of 93

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian urged the United States to stop militarizing space. The US is spending billions on the Space Force.
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China Accuses United States of Militarizing Outer Space

Researchers find clear evidence of a link between the radio waves emitted by certain cell phones and cancer in male rats.
Mars

NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Less Powerful Than Many Smartphones

NASA' Juno spacecraft took two stunning images of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede during a June 7 flyby.
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NASA Spacecraft Takes Gorgeous Pictures of Jupiter’s Largest Moon

NASA scientists may have found organic salts — remnants of older organic compounds that could have sustained life — on Mars, but they can't yet be certain.
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NASA Rover Finds Likely Remnants of Organic Compounds on Mars

NASA said yesterday there's a big problem with the heat shield on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Crew-5 is using and needs to be replaced.
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SpaceX Replacing Defective Heat Shield Before Next Astronaut Launch

An old Soviet-era rocket body almost collided with an errant military satellite, narrowly avoiding a huge disaster, according to tracking company LeoLabs.
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Two Large Chunks of Space Debris Just Almost Collided in an Epic Disaster

During its sixth flight, NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter will be examining nearby rock features before touching down on a different airfield.
Mars

The Mars Helicopter Has Survived Longer Than NASA Planned

Scientists have uncovered a macabre potential explanation for why a specific subset of exoplanets haven't been observed yet.
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Scientists Offer Ghoulish Theory for Why There Are No Planets of a Certain Size

ESA is prepping to send a spacecraft to Venus — a feat which will require state-of-the-art methods to get through the planet's grueling atmosphere. 
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ESA Unveils Plan to Send Spacecraft Through Venus’ “Hot, Thick” Atmosphere

The Parker Solar Probe broke two of its own records, for being fastest human-made object and taking the closest apporach to the Sun.
Science & Energy

A NASA Spacecraft Just “Touched” the Outer Layer of the Sun

Space weather experts are monitoring a growing sunspot that's pointing straight towards Earth, USA Today reports — but there's "no need to panic."
Space

Scientists Say “No Need to Panic” as Sunspot Pointed at Earth Doubles in Size Again

For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System — and it was the James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery. 
James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Telescope Is So Powerful, It Spotted a Dust Storm on a Planet in a Different Star System

Scientists have built a real-life tractor beam that can pull actual objects using nothing but light.But it has one big drawback: it's absolutely tiny.
Science & Energy

Scientists Build Working Tractor Beam, Although It’s Comically Tiny

The Senate unanimously voted to confirm Biden nominee Bill Nelson, a former Senator and astronaut, as the new Administrator of NASA.
NASA

Congress Names Former Astronaut as New NASA Leader

The James Webb Space Telescope secretly released an infrared photo of Jupiter during its historic drop of images yesterday.
James Webb Space Telescope

The Webb Telescope Just Quietly Released a Picture of Jupiter

We were eating dinner and the shaking was so intense that we all ran outside."
Future Society

One in Five Professors Say They’ve Had a UFO Encounter, Survey Finds

After years of delay and troubleshooting, Boeing finally docked its space taxi, Starliner, to the International Space Station with 800 pounds of cargo.
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Astronauts Enter Starliner After It Finally Docks To Space Station

Bill Nelson is now officially the Biden-era Administrator of NASA. Here's some of what we know about his past career in space and the Senate.
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Eight Facts About the New Head of NASA, Bill Nelson

Geoscientists may have figured out why dwarf planet Ceres, the largest body in the Milky Way's asteroid belt, shows signs of ocean and seismic activity.
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Unexpected “Geological Activity” on Dwarf Planet Ceres Shocks Scientists