Boeing's Starliner capsule to land in New Mexico Wednesday | Hubble Space Telescope spots star formation streams between galaxies | NASA has early plans to send astronauts to Mars for 30 days
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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will wrap up its landmark test flight to the International Space Station for NASA this week with a touchdown in New Mexico on Wednesday evening (May 25), if all goes according to plan.
Starliner is scheduled to touch down at White Sands Missile Range at 6:49 p.m. EDT (2249 GMT) on Wednesday.
Stars from colliding galaxies flow together in a newly upgraded image from NASA's venerable space telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope has been hard at work for more than three decades, and scientists never lose their fascination with the observatory's vast archives. Take, for example, this "river of star formation," as NASA officials termed it in a recent statement, takes place in an intersection of four dwarf galaxies within the Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG 31) of galaxies.
We have a glimpse now of NASA's latest vision for its first crewed Mars mission.
The agency released its top objectives for a 30-day, two-person Mars surface mission last week and asked the public to provide feedback on how the planning is going. Submissions are due June 3. NASA aims to launch astronauts to Mars by the late 2030s or early 2040s. Making that vision a reality will be challenging.
Fear not: the asteroid, named 7335 (1989 JA), will soundly miss our planet by about 2.5 million miles (4 million kilometers) - or nearly 10 times the average distance between Earth and the moon. Still, given the space rock's enormous size (1.1. miles, or 1.8 km, in diameter) and relatively close proximity to Earth, NASA has classified the asteroid as "potentially hazardous," meaning it could do enormous damage to our planet if its orbit ever changes and the rock impacts Earth.
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Japanese astronauts will ride on NASA Artemis missions to the moon, and potentially even reach the surface, amid an interagency push to expand lunar exploration.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed that commitment Monday (May 23) during a meeting in Tokyo, NASA and the White House said in separate announcements.
The CAPSTONE mission, short for "Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment," will now launch no earlier than June 6, NASA has announced.
"We will continually evaluate the date for the first target launch attempt within the launch period, which extends to June 22," agency officials wrote May 20, without providing specifics on why the launch was delayed.
NASA's next-generation space observatory successfully watched a moving asteroid as the telescope inches towards the end of its six-month commissioning period.
The successful tracking of a nearby object shows that the James Webb Space Telescope can keep a watch on solar system objects as well as the distant galaxies, stars and other faraway objects it is expected to observe in its perhaps 20-year lifespan.
A new computer simulation suggests that dwarf planet Ceres may have been flung by the gravity of gas giant Jupiter toward the sun during the volatile era of planet formation 4.5 billion years ago.
There has always been something out of place about Ceres. At 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) wide, Ceres is by far the largest body in the asteroid belt, the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter where space rocks (most of them only tens or hundreds of meters in size and oddly shaped) gather.
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The prominent and still-mysterious Wow! Signal, which briefly blared in a radio telescope the night of Aug. 15, 1977, may have come from a sun-like star located 1,800 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius.
"The Wow! Signal is considered the best SETI candidate radio signal that we have picked up with our telescopes," Alberto Caballero, an amateur astronomer, told Live Science. SETI, or the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, is a field that has been listening for possible messages from otherworldly technological beings since the middle of the 20th century, according to NASA.
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