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In this artist's rendering, two gaseous planets orbit the bright star HD 152843. These planets were discovered through the citizen science project Planet Hunters TESS, in collaboration with professional scientists.

Two new gaseous planets found by citizen scientists

A 1,100 km-wide, false-color radar view of Lavinia Planitia, one of the lowland regions on Venus where the lithosphere has fragmented into blocks (purple) delineated by belts of tectonic structures (yellow).

Venus may still be active based on 'pack ice' finding

Astronauts install new solar panels in 6-hour spacewalk on International Space Station

Medieval Europeans regularly reopened graves — and not to rob them

GM and Lockheed Martin are working on a Lunar Rover, pictured in this rendering.

The 1970s moon buggies are still up there. GM and Lockheed Martin want to make new ones

You can help NASA name the mannequin heading to the moon

New images help solve celestial mystery of Betelgeuse's great dimming

Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (out of frame) continued the process of removing debris and applying lubrication around the starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ), replaced four more of the SARJ's 12 trundle bearing assemblies, relocated two equipment carts and applied lubrication to the station's robotic Canadarm2 during the STS-126 mission's second spacewalk.

Technical problems prevent astronauts from installing new solar panels on space station

Space enthusiasts look at a prototype of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft at the company's Texas launch facility on September 28, 2019 in Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas. The Starship spacecraft is a massive vehicle meant to take people to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. (Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images)

SpaceX likely to miss July date for Mars rocket test

Astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (out of frame) continued the process of removing debris and applying lubrication around the starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ), replaced four more of the SARJ's 12 trundle bearing assemblies, relocated two equipment carts and applied lubrication to the station's robotic Canadarm2 during the STS-126 mission's second spacewalk.

Watch astronauts give the International Space Station a power boost

How our ancestors conquered the dark to produce the world's oldest art

A Long March-2F rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft for China's first manned mission on June 9, 2021 in China's Gansu province.

China to send first astronauts to new space station on longest crewed mission to date

China successfully launched the first module of its planned space station from the Wenchang launch site in the southern island of Hainan, according to the China National Space Administration.

See China's last rocket launch to send in space key component of its space station

A new chapter in space begins. See what's next

Northrop Grumman's Minotaur 1 rocket on Wallops Island is made up of four stages to propel the cargo into orbit.

Catch Northrop Grumman's Minotaur 1 rocket launch into orbit Tuesday morning

NEO Surveyor is a new mission proposal designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids that are near Earth.

New space telescope could spot potentially hazardous asteroids heading for Earth

World's smallest dinosaur is actually a 'weird' prehistoric lizard, scientists say

The image from video provided by the Department of Defense labelled Gimbal, from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds, traveling against the wind. "There's a whole fleet of them," one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. "It's rotating." The U.S. government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects, under orders from Congress, and a report summarizing what officials know is expected to come out in June 2021.

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