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Mandatory Credit: Photo by SpaceX/ZUMA Wire/Shutterstock (10664346i) A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard. NASA's SpaceX Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX Demo-2 Historic Manned Launch, Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. - 30 May 2020

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Emissions from rocket launches could affect Earth's weather systems

Increasing numbers of space launches will put more black carbon high in the atmosphere, where it can trap heat from the sun

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Sentinel-3, one of the satellites used by the Copernicus programme

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UK may go it alone in orbit after Brexit shutout from EU space plans

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James Webb Space Telescope Artist Conception Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez

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James Webb Space Telescope was hit by a tiny space rock – but it’s OK

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How lessons learned from space exploration could feed the world

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How lessons learned from space exploration could feed the world

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The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space

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The rise of SpinLaunch, the company planning to hurl things into space

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https://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/index.html Artist?s impression of Himawari-8 and Himawari-9

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Betelgeuse star dimming puzzle solved by chance with weather satellite

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Mare Crisium is a large, dark, basaltic plain on the Moon that filled an ancient asteroid impact. Basaltic plains on the Moon were created by early volcanic eruptions. Mare Crisium was flooded with basaltic lava, a dark, runny lava commonly found on Earth. Basaltic plains on the Moon are also known as lunar maria, because of a mistaken belief by early astronomers that these dark areas were oceans ? ?maria? is the Latin word for ?seas.? We now know these spots to be plains of basalt created by early volcanic eruptions, but the nomenclature of ?maria? (plural) or ?mare? (singular) remains. The basalts in Mare Crisium range in age from 2.5 to 3.3 billion years old! These dates come from measuring the radioactive isotope signatures of samples returned from Mare Crisium by the Soviet Luna 24 mission. Along the rim of Mare Crisium lies an outer boundary of wrinkle ridges. Wrinkle ridges are commonly found in places where the surface has contracted. As the surface is compressed, it bends and fractures, and can form complicated patterns of faults and folds.

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Bricks made of dust from the moon and Mars could make space buildings

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Jared and Monica Isaacman

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Send thousands of people to orbit, says space tourist Jared Isaacman

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Starry outer space background texture

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Planet-sized telescopes could be possible using quantum technique

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The ?crew? of the Artemis 1 mis?sion to the Moon

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Space test dummies will measure female radiation risk for first time

Two mannequins designed to represent female bodies will measure radiation exposure on NASA's Artemis I mission later this year, in preparation for putting the first woman on the moon

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Controversial claim that the universe is skewed could upend cosmology

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All four of the key DNA building blocks have been found in meteorites

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NASA should explore Uranus and Enceladus, say planetary scientists

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Scientists simulated a supernova blast with a foam ball and a laser

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