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What time is Blue Origin's New Shepard launch with Katy Perry and Gayle King today?
By Josh Dinner published
Blue Origin is set to launch its star-studded, all-female NS-31 mission to suborbital space on April 14. Here's how to watch it live.

Texas Senators: Move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Houston
By Robert Z. Pearlman published
Space shuttle Discovery may be removed from the Smithsonian and put on display at Space Center Houston, if two senators from Texas get their way.

Blue Origin’s all-female space flight urges women to shoot for the stars — but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
By Jasleen Chana published
For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova’s solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will fly with only women aboard. Blue Origin’s all-female crew includes pop star Katy Perry.

China to 3D-print bricks on the moon using lunar dirt in 2028 to pave way for future base (video)
By Andrew Jones published
China is getting ready to 3D-print bricks on the moon using lunar soil, in what could be a huge step toward building a base on the lunar surface.

NASA's Juno probe at Jupiter hits 'safe mode' glitch, but bounces back just fine
By Monisha Ravisetti published
NASA's Juno spacecraft went into safe mode twice on April 4, but everything's okay again.

See gorgeous green auroras dance over Earth in dazzling ISS astronaut video
By Mike Wall published
NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured two amazing videos of the auroras from his unique perch above Earth last week.

This star burped after eating a planet — but the planet was really asking for it
By Keith Cooper published
The James Webb Space Telescope has revisited a star that swallowed a planet and found that instead of the star subsuming the planet, it was the planet that crashed into the star.

Hubble Telescope snaps 1st images of clashing star clusters at the hearts of dwarf galaxies
By Robert Lea published
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, directly detected the merger of star clusters at the heart of dwarf galaxies.

Rookie NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch to the ISS on a Russian rocket later this year
By Josh Dinner published
NASA astronaut Chris Williams will launch on his first mission to the International Space Station, on a Russian Soyuz rocket with two cosmonaut colleagues, as early as November.
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