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Northrop Grumman's 'Cygnus XL' cargo spacecraft suffers thruster issue on way to the International Space... Northrop Grumman's new "Cygnus XL" cargo ship won't arrive at the ISS on Wednesday morning (Sept. 17) as planned after suffering a thruster issue in orbit.

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'We're really on a different trajectory': How NASA's Artemis moon missions aim to prepare us... NASA is working on finding landing sites for future moon astronauts. Part of the work includes thinking about how to prepare for eventual Mars missions with astronauts.

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Doomed 'cannibal' star could soon explode in a supernova so bright it would be visible... Astronomers have solved the mystery of a star that has baffled scientists for over a century, finding it is a cannibal white dwarf about to blow in an explosion that will be visible with the naked eye.

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'Secret island' on sun sparks surprise solar storm and stunning auroras across the US (photos) A hidden magnetic island inside a coronal hole unleashed a surprise G3 storm, sparking dazzling displays across the US.

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Forget supercomputers — scientists say a laptop could map the universe in minutes A new emulator is tackling the near-impossible task of mapping the universe's large-scale structure without sacrificing intricate details.

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'We have to fully fund NASA': Lawmaker joins space agency employees in protest outside DC... Chants of "Save NASA!" echoed through downtown Washington, D.C., Monday(Sept. 15) as agency workers and supporters rallied outside NASA headquarters.

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NASA, Partners Push Forward with Remotely Piloted Airspace Integration NASA researchers Matt Gregory, right, Arwa Awiess, center, and Andrew Guion, left, discuss live flight data being ingested at the Mission Visualization and Research Control Center (MVRCC) at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Aug. 21, 2025.NASA/ ...

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'Totally unexpected': Stunning new imagery shows big changes in the 1st black hole ever captured... Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around it has unexpectedly reversed directions.

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Webinar Series: Teaching with EMERGE & GLOBE Mission Mosquito Educators, join our free two-part webinar, and learn about bringing coding and citizen science to your learners!
The Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is a science and education program that focuses on advancing Earth systems science through data ...

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An Eye-catching Star Cluster X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare
Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This view combines x-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (in pink, ...

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Regions on Asteroid Explored by NASA’s Lucy Mission Get Official Names The IAU (International Astronomical Union), an international non-governmental research organization and global naming authority for celestial objects, has approved official names for features on Donaldjohanson, an asteroid NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited on April 20. In a nod to the fossilized ...

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Fly through Gaia’s 3D map of stellar nurseries Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more about these obscure cloudy areas, and the hot ...

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RISE: ESA’s mission extender in geostationary orbit Video:
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An essential part of ESA’s Space Safety programme is dedicated to getting and keeping Earth’s orbits clean from space debris. In the long run, the Agency aspires to stimulate a true circular economy in space, minimising the impact of spaceflight on ...

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First view of aerosols from MetOp-SG’s 3MI instrument Image:
First view of aerosols from MetOp Second Generation’s 3MI instrument

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Astronomy Now relaunches digital platform by Astronomy Now Editor, Stuart Clark
We are pleased to announce that our new Astronomy Now app is live!
Since taking ownership of the magazine in July, creating an enhanced digital experience has been a high priority for our new Astronomy Now ...

Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1e displays tentative evidence for an atmosphere

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Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1e displays tentative evidence for an atmosphere An artist’s impression of the Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e, depicted at the lower right, is silhouetted as it passes in front of its host star. Scientists call this event a transit. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Olmsted (STScI).
Astronomers have seen tentative ...

Ten-Year Lease Extension Confirmed at Herstmonceux Observatory

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Ten-Year Lease Extension Confirmed at Herstmonceux Observatory By Ian Whitely, chair of the Save Herstmonceux Observatory campaign
Since the September issue of Astronomy Now went to press, we’ve heard that the lease to the Observatory Science Centre (OSC), Herstmonceux has been extended for 10 years.
The announcement, on 18 ...

ISS On-Orbit Status Report - NASA

ISS Daily Summary Report Discontinued Beginning Monday, July 29th, the IMC Daily Summary will be discontinued.
To learn more about the groundbreaking science and engineering happening daily on the International Space Station, please visit the space station blog at https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/, or browse a variety of space station ...