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How bacteria are inspiring the next generation of space-borne lasers
By Keith Cooper published
The bacteria could be grown in space, and lend their photosynthesizing talents to supplying power to the hundreds of thousands of satellites in orbit.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission — Live updates
By Robert Lea last updated
Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
Warm up this holiday season with NASA's new SLS rocket engine fireplace (video)
By Mike Wall published
NASA has given us a holiday treat — a virtual fireplace lit by the engines of its Space Launch System moon rocket.
2 space telescope designs will battle it out to become NASA's next cosmic imager
By Keith Cooper published
Whichever mission NASA selects to image the cosmos next should launch by 2032. Here are the two contenders.
Happy Thanksgiving from space! What Turkey Day dinner looks like for NASA astronauts on ISS (video)
By Mike Wall published
The four NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station wished us all a happy Thanksgiving — and revealed what they'll be feasting on this Turkey Day.
Astronaut catches Dextre space robot 'busting a move' outside ISS — for science (video)
By Elizabeth Howell published
NASA astronaut Don Pettit took a 10-hour timelapse of Dextre, a handy Canadian robot, working with a science experiment on the ISS.
How China plans to put astronauts on the moon by 2030 (video)
By Andrew Jones published
China's human spaceflight agency has released a video detailing its plans for a first crewed mission to the moon, including progress on lunar hardware.
'Flame-throwing' Guitar Nebula's concert caught by Hubble and Chandra space telescopes (video)
By Samantha Mathewson published
NASA telescope spotted a glowing nebula that looks like a guitar shredding rapid pulses of stellar material through space like soundwaves through a packed concert stadium.
'Hidden black hole' devouring curious star exposed by new X-ray space telescope
By Robert Lea published
In a "rite of passage," the JAXA/NASA X-ray telescope XRISM has mapped in detail Cygnus X-3, a curious binary system with a potential black hole feasting stellar winds blowing from a massive star.
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