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Watch LIVE: The first all-female spacewalk
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will soon make history with the first all-female spacewalk, approximately commencing at 11:50 GMT (6:50 ET) on 18 October 2019
Solar System
NASA spots InSight Mars lander and Curiosity rover from space (photos)
The new photo is the best-ever look at the InSight lander on the surface of Mars
Space Exploration
NASA’s first SLS megarocket launch to the Moon could be delayed to 2021
The Space Launch System megarocket will eventually take humans back to the Moon in 2024
Space Exploration
Space junk menace: New guidelines urged to help fight orbital debris threat
Spacecraft designers and operators need to be proactive, a new organisation argues
Solar System
Interstellar Comet Borisov looks pretty normal, new observations suggest
These results are based of observations made in September 2019 using telescopes in Spain and Hawaii
Space Exploration
Boeing aims to launch unpiloted Starliner test flight to space station in December
Liftoff is targeted for 17 December 2019
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A churning ‘molten blob’ of planet may be easier to find. Here’s why
Molten planets could hold clues as to how a planet eventually becomes habitable, much like Earth
Space Exploration
SpaceX could launch NASA astronauts into space in early 2020
Crew Dragon is nearly ready to go
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NASA wants to encourage private space stations
commercial companies could build their own space stations and utilise the unique environment of low-Earth orbit
Solar System
20 new moons found around Saturn, snagging satellite record from Jupiter
Saturn now has 82 known satellites
Deep Space
Event Horizon Telescope snags new funding to capture first movie of a black hole
The first black hole image, announced in April 2019, received a sublime reception and everyone wants more
Space Exploration
Blue Origin probably won’t launch people to space this year
2020 is a more likely target
Space Exploration
Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe drops its last rover on asteroid Ryugu
The space probe has released its fourth, and final, rover onto the asteroid’s surface at a different height from the others
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If you threw a piece of food into space, would it freeze?
Find out why there are no take-aways in space
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Neptune-size exomoon candidate may be the captured core of a giant planet
The mysterious Kepler-1625b-i and its parent planet may once have been siblings
Space Exploration
‘Totally nuts’? Elon Musk aims to put a Starship in orbit in six months. Here’s SpaceX’s plan
The landmark orbital flight will likely be made by the fourth or fifth full-size Starship prototype