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Spacecraft may need to be dirtier to keep astronauts healthy
The International Space Station may be a bit too clean Geopix/Alamy The strategy of keeping spacecraft…
Planetary alignment: How to see every planet in the solar system at once this week
An artist’s impression of the solar system Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski All of our solar system’s planets are…
Medicines made in space set to touch down in Australian outback
Varda’s first capsule, W-1, after landing in Utah in February 2024 John Kraus/Varda Sometime this…
Intuitive Machine’s lunar lander Athena set to blast off to the moon
An artist’s impression of the Athena spacecraft on the moon NASA A private space mission will…
Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best detail ever seen
A 3400-kilometre-wide thunderstorm on Jupiter Shawn R. Brueshaber et al. 2025 A thunderstorm that raged in…
Asteroid 2024 YR4 will now almost certainly miss Earth in 2032
Astronomers have raced to observe asteroid 2024 YR4 NASA/Magdalena Ridge 2.4m telescope/New Mexico Institute of Technology/Ryan…
Asteroid 2024 YR4: Odds of collision with Earth in 2032 have fallen again
An artist’s impression of what asteroid 2024 YR4 could look like as it approaches Earth in…
WOH G64: Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode
An artist’s impression of the star WOH G64 ESO/L. Calçada One of the largest stars in…
Jonathan McDowell: tracking commercial companies’ space operations is more difficult than spy organisations
Jonathan McDowell has been a load-bearing part of the world’s spaceflight knowledge for more than four…