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This illustration made available by Johns Hopkins APL and NASA depicts NASA's DART probe, foreground right, and Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube, bottom right, at the Didymos system before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. DART is expected to zero in on the asteroid Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph. The impact should be just enough to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion space rock. (Steve...

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NASA spacecraft slams into asteroid in defense test

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressSeptember 26, 2022

This undated photo released by NASA shows craters that were formed by a Sept. 5, 2021, meteoroid impact on Mars, the first to be detected by NASA’s InSight. Taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this enhanced-color image highlights the dust and soil disturbed by the impact in blue in order to make details more visible to the human eye. NASA lander on Mars has captured the vibrations and sounds of four meteorites striking the planet's surface. Scientists reported Monday,...

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NASA Mars lander captures strikes by 4 incoming space rocks

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressSeptember 19, 2022

In this photo provided by NASA, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.. NASA's Artemis I flight test is the first integrated test of the agency's deep space exploration systems: (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)

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NASA aims for Saturday rocket launch

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressAugust 31, 2022

The NASA moon rocket stands ready at sunrise on Pad 39B before the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)

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Moon rocket launch scrubbed over engine glitch

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressAugust 29, 2022

Storm clouds roll in over the NASA moon rocket as it stands ready for launch on Pad 39B for the Artemis 1 mission at the Kennedy Space Center, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Monday morning Aug. 29. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

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Lightning strikes not disrupting moon rocket launch

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressAugust 28, 2022

This false color composite image of Jupiter obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 27 shows the planet’s rings and some of its small satellites are visible along with background galaxies.

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Space telescope shows Jupiter’s auroras

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressAugust 22, 2022

The NASA Artemis rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard stands on pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. NASA is aiming for an Aug. 29 liftoff for the lunar test flight. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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NASA’s moon rocket moved to launch pad

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressAugust 17, 2022

FILE - In this June 2, 2021 file image taken from Roscosmos video, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, right, and Pyotr Dubrov, members of the crew to the International Space Station (ISS), perform their first spacewalk to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station. Russia's space chief said Tuesday, July 26, 2022, that they will opt out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost. (Roscosmos via AP, File)

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Russia says it will drop out of International Space Station after 2024

by Vladimir Isachenkov Associated Press, and Marcia Dunn Associated PressJuly 26, 2022

FILE - Light shines from a total lunar eclipse over Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, May 26, 2021. A total lunar eclipse will grace the night skies this weekend, providing longer than usual thrills for stargazers across North and South America. The celestial action unfolds Sunday night, May 15, 2022 into early Monday morning, with the moon bathed in the reflected red and orange hues of Earth’s sunsets and sunrises for about 1 1/2 hours, the longest totality of...

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Moon goes blood red Sunday: ‘Eclipse for the Americas’

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressMay 13, 2022

This image made available by NASA on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, shows the star Earendel, indicated by arrow, and the Sunrise Arc galaxy, stretching from lower left to upper right, optically bent due to a massive galaxy cluster between it and the Hubble Space Telescope which captured the light. The mass of the galaxy cluster serves as a magnifying glass, allowing Earendel to be seen. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch (JHU), Dan Coe (STScI); Image processing: NASA, ESA, Alyssa Pagan (STScI)...

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Astronomers discover super-hot star from cosmic dawn

by Marcia Dunn Associated PressMarch 30, 2022