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Blue Origin launches 6 space tourists on suborbital trip

(Blue Origin)

Blue Origin's fourth crewed spaceflight is in the books. A New Shepard vehicle lifted off from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas on Thursday, carrying a crew of six people to suborbital space. "It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," passenger Sharon Hagle said on exiting the capsule.

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NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket is 'go' for 1st fueling test

(NASA)

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket is ready for its next close-up. The so-called "wet dress rehearsal" fueling test will run this weekend from April 1 to April 3.

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Hyperactive sunspot just hurled a huge X-class solar flare

(NASA/GSFC/SDO)

The hotbed of sun activity, known officially as AR2975, sent out a powerful X-class flare that has already created a temporary blackout in shortwave radio signals in the Americas on Wednesday.

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Spaceflight

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei back on Earth after record-breaking mission

(NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei can't wait to see his wife after landing back on Earth after a record-breaking 355-day space mission. "I promised my wife I will not be flying to space again, so that will be bittersweet."

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China's record-setting Shenzhou 13 crew preparing for mid-April landing

(CCTV)

China's three Shenzhou 13 astronauts will return to Earth after a national record six-month-long mission in orbit aboard the Chinese space station.

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Apollo-Soyuz astronaut reflects on U.S.-Russia space relations

(NASA)

Stafford, now 91, said that when it came to Apollo-Soyuz, the NASA astronauts "just approached it in a very professional manner." And, while Stafford didn't reveal much of what was said between the astronauts and cosmonauts during the nine-day mission, he said simply: "It went great."

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Science & Astronomy

Meet Earendel: Hubble star discovery gets Tolkien name

(NASA, ESA, B. Welch (JHU), D. Coe (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI))

Fans of the author J.R.R. Tolkien, famous for fantasy novels including "The Lord of the Rings" series and "The Silmarillion," might already find this name familiar.

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Star-sized dust cloud formed by massive asteroids colliding

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a debris cloud's size suggests that the dust was formed when two bodies the size of dwarf planets smashed together a few hundred light-years away from us.

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Technology

China's big plans for new Tiandu space exploration laboratory

(CNSA/PEC)

China has established a deep-space exploration laboratory here on Earth to support the development of the country's growing plans for lunar and planetary missions.

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Using tiny satellites to monitor harmful gases from space (op-ed)

(Los Alamos National Laboratory/Logan Ott)

The NanoSat Atmospheric Chemistry Hyperspectral Observation System, or NACHOS, is the first-ever cubesat-based hyperspectral imaging system that can compete with traditional large-satellite instruments in chemical detection applications.

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Skywatching

Sunspot outbursts likely to trigger more auroras

(Irene Stachon/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images)

The "magnetically complex" sunspot called 2975 has spurted out about 20 solar flares over the past days including an X-class flare that blasted from the sun at 1:37 pm EDT (0537 GMT) on Wednesday.

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These UK binocular deals at Wex can save you hundreds

(Leica)

Good news for UK astronomers, you can save hundreds of pounds on binoculars from top brands when you grab them from Wex. There's savings on Leica, Vortex, Celestron and Zeiss binoculars that will give you top views of the night sky as well as other worldly views

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