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The U.S. Space Force’s X-37B space plane is seen before being encapsulated inside its payload fairing ahead of one of its launches. (Image credit: U.S. Space Force/Boeing) The U.S. Space Force’s secretive X-37B space plane is poised to launch to orbit once again. The X-37B is slated to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 […]

The first American in space and the oldest astronaut at the time of his flight Apollo 14, Alan Shepard was also the only person to play golf on the moon. Credit: NASA Takeaway Keyway: Alan Shepard was a navy pilot who became one of NASA’s first astronauts. He was the first American in space. Later

The crew of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission. From left: mission specialist Christina Koch, pilot Victor Glover, commander Reid Wiseman, and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen. (Image credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission don’t hide from the fact that their mission comes at a pivotal time for the

The nebula of the heart, IC 1805, is a nebula of temptular emission in the rich fields of the Milky Way of Cassiopeia the Queen. Credit: Jeffrey Sinees Takeaway Keyway: The nebula of the heart (IC 1805) is a large region that forms star. It contains a young stars cluster (Melotte 15). The nebula is

(Image credit: Disney / Marvel) Perhaps it’s fate that Marvel’s Fantastic Four made their comics debut in 1961 as the era of human spaceflight began. Or it could just be a cosmic coincidence. Either way, that Space Age connection is abundantly clear in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” which heralds the arrival of Marvel’s First

The Juno mission – shown here in an illustration with a background of an image of Jupiter taken from the space vehicle – would have been canceled pursuant to the 2026 budget request of the Trump administration. Credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH Takeaway Keyway: Hundreds of NASA employees protested proposed budget cuts and political changes. These changes threaten

Although there was a debate on what exactly Cerere was, p. Giuseppe Piazzi his discoverer. Credit: Inf/Wikimedia Takeaway Keyway: Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres in 1801. Initially classified as a planet, Ceres was subsequently called asteroid. In 2006, Cerere was reclassified as a dwarf planet. The discovery of Piazzi makes him the first discoverer of a

This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula NGC 6072, the dying embers of a ruined star that has reached the end of its sun-like life. Cocooned inside the nebula, within its own ejected outer layers, the fading star is undergoing a transformation into a white dwarf. As the James

Credit: ESA/Hubble & Nasa, R. Sankrit Takeaway Keyway: An explosion of supernova, from a huge star, occurred about 2,400 years ago. Its light reached the earth about 10,000 years ago, appearing brighter than Venus. The remains of the explosion are now visible as the veil nebula. The Hubble space telescope captured a detailed image of

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft waits on the launch pad at Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 27, 2025 ahead of the Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station, currently set for July 31. (Image credit: SpaceX) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX’s Crew-11