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Here's what the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris look like from space (photos)
The European Space Agency shared a high-resolution interactive image of central Paris highlighting several notable venues where the 2024 Summer Olympic games are being held from July 26 through Aug. 11, 2024.
China's Chang'e 5 rover detects hints of water on the moon
The hydrated molecules were found inside a rock sample retrieved by China's Chang'e 5 mission in 2020
Will we ever reach Alpha Centauri, our closest neighboring star system?
Visiting our nearest stellar neighbor will take near-light-speed travel.
Boeing Starliner astronauts remain stuck on International Space Station with no set return date, NASA announces
After nearly two months of postponement, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are still on board the ISS. But NASA and Boeing say they still plan to return the two aboard Starliner.
Gaia spacecraft almost doomed by back-to-back meteor strike and solar storm — but ESA says they've found a solution
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft is back to routine operations studying the Milky Way after a meteor strike punctured its protective shield, allowing charged solar particles to stream through.
Fixing Boeing's leaky Starliner — and returning NASA's stranded astronauts to Earth — is much harder than it sounds
Astronauts are stuck on the International Space Station after yet more problems with Boeing's beleaguered Starliner. Here's why an investigation into the issues is so difficult, even for NASA.
20 satellites fall from sky after catastrophic SpaceX rocket failure, triggering investigation
Twenty doomed Starlink satellites, which were prematurely released during a botched Falcon 9 rocket launch last week, have burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back to Earth, new data confirms. Experts are currently investigating what went wrong.
NASA astronauts say they're 'confident' Starliner will bring them home, despite no return date in sight
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams say they are confident they will be able to return soon, but the exact date of their journey home remains unknown.
Even a 'weekend getaway' to space can alter astronauts' biology, sweeping new studies find
Even three days in space is enough to alter an astronaut's biology, according to a new set of studies that offers the most comprehensive look at spaceflight health since NASA's Twins Study.
Space junk: How broken satellites are creating a garbage crisis in the sky
Thousands of pieces of space debris, also known as space junk, are orbiting Earth, with tons more added each year. This orbital debris poses a significant threat to satellites, spacecraft, astronauts — and increasingly humans on Earth.
