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Jaffa, Kree! It's time for someone else to pick up the baton...and soon

The 2022 Winter Olympics are here and Maxar Technologies has released satellite images of many of the venues in China as seen from space.

The parachute system on SpaceX's Dragon capsule hasn't behaved exactly as expected recently, and NASA and SpaceX want to know why.

The end of the International Space Station is inevitable — and complicated.

The Orion spacecraft, with its launch abort system, stands on top of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Corey Huston

NASA officials said Wednesday the first rollout of the agency’s huge Space Launch System moon rocket is scheduled in mid-March for a key fueling test on a seaside launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, a few weeks than previous planned to allow more time for closeouts inside the Vehicle Assembly Building.

Astra’s Rocket 3.3, with NASA’s “meatball” logo on its fairing, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Credit: Astra / John Kraus

Astra has become the first company to receive a commercial launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration through a streamlined regulatory regime, clearing a procedural hurdle before launching a small rocket and four NASA-sponsored CubeSats into orbit Saturday from Cape Canaveral.

Hollywood has finally taken inspiration from the decade-ago move of a NASA space shuttle through the streets of Los Angeles and it only took the moon falling out of the sky for it to happen.

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is poised to slam into the moon in exactly one month.

The flight, called Ax-1, is made up of one professional astronaut and three paying customers.

NASA is preparing for the day its astronauts explore the south pole of the moon by heading underwater with the lights out.

Some people around the world believe our planet is flat. Here's the (surprising) truth about debating them.

NASA and SpaceX will hold announce an update to the agency's next astronaut launch from Florida today (Feb. 4) and you can follow it live online.

The distance to Mars from Earth constantly changes as they orbit the sun. The average distance between Earth and Mars is 140 million miles (225 million km).

Week in images: 31 January - 4 February 2022

There’s a massive star in our galaxy’s halo, far away from the usual star-forming haunts. How did it get there?

Here's how to stay up to date on all of NASA's content for Black History month.

Frequent meteor collisions occurred on the Red Planet for 30 million more years than thought, a new study suggests.

The man who gave us mutant neutrinos that melt the Earth's core hopes his movies will raise awareness over real dangers to our planet.

A streak of purple "lightning" sprawls across the cosmos in a gorgeous new image from NASA.

Image: A new eruption started at the Anak Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia on 3 February 2022, as seen in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.