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This image provided by Intuitive Machines shows its Odysseus lunar lander over the near side of the moon following lunar orbit insertion on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. (Intuitive Machines via AP)

Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years

February 22, 2024 at 8:37 p.m.

A private lander has made the first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years. Intuitive Machines' lander touched down Thursday, but left flight controllers scrambling before gaining better contact....

This image provided by Virtual Telescope Project out of Italy shows a single 180-second exposure asteroid that was approaching Earth, about 4 million kilometers, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2024. (Virtual Telescope Project via AP)

Skyscraper-size asteroid will buzz Earth on Friday, safely passing within 1.7 million miles

February 1, 2024 at 10:32 a.m.

Astronomers say an asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday.

In this image made from video provided by NASA, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky holds a mini satellite before launching it by hand from the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2017.

Spacewalking cosmonauts release 3-D-printed satellite

August 22, 2019 at 12:32 a.m.

Spacewalking cosmonauts set free the world's first satellite made almost entirely with a 3-D printer on Thursday. In total, Russians Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy ended up releasing five nanosatellites...

SpaceX launches top-secret spy satellite for U.S. government

May 23, 2019 at 2:11 p.m.

SpaceX launched a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government Monday morning and then successfully landed the booster for recycling. The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its NASA-leased...

In a photo provided by NASA, a cargo ship from a Japanese company is bolted into place on the International Space Station on Aug. 24, 2015.

Another giant leap for mankind? Whisky arrives in space

August 18, 2019 at 8:20 p.m.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— Spirits arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. Not the ghostly ones, but the kind you drink— distilled spirits. A Japanese company known for its whiskey...

LOOK, MA, NO TETHER

August 9, 2021 at 2:52 p.m.

The photograph is 10 years old, but it remains a classic: a white human bundle hovering against the blackness of space above an aqua Earth. That bundle is Bruce McCandless,...

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