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Trump’s NASA Pick Poised to Win Senate Vote After Do-Over Hearing

3 December 2025 at 14:53
The president withdrew Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead the space agency in June, but senators of both parties appeared willing to give him a second shot at confirmation.

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Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur and NASA administrator nominee, appearing before the Senate on Wednesday.

Russian Launch Site Mishap Leaves Country’s Space Program in Limbo

2 December 2025 at 13:49
The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.

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A Soyuz spacecraft launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 27. The rocket itself headed to space without problem, but the rocket’s exhaust knocked a service platform out of its protective shelter.

NASA Rover Discovers Lightning on Mars

26 November 2025 at 11:10
The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere.

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A towering dust devil casting a shadow over the Martian surface, captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2012.

NASA Releases Images of Comet 3I/ATLAS Passing by Mars

19 November 2025 at 19:44
With the government reopened, the space agency at last released pictures captured by a fleet of government spacecraft of an object that came from beyond our solar system.

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Almost Everything About NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars Is Unusual

14 November 2025 at 12:13
The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.

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Almost Everything About NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars Is Unusual

14 November 2025 at 12:13
The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together.

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Blue Origin Lands Booster After Rocket Launch and Matches SpaceX’s Feat

13 November 2025 at 22:11
The lower half of the New Glenn rocket set down on a platform in the Atlantic Ocean after lifting a small NASA Mars mission to space.

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A screengrab from the live feed of the Blue Origin launch showing the returned booster rocket on the floating platform Jacklyn in the Atlantic Ocean.

Northern Lights Are Beautiful, but for Satellites They’re Risky

12 November 2025 at 20:53
At least one space launch has been put on hold, as satellite operators and rocket companies manage the effects of the current geomagnetic storm hitting Earth.

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Northern Lights Are Beautiful, but for Satellites They’re Risky

12 November 2025 at 20:53
At least one space launch has been put on hold, as satellite operators and rocket companies manage the effects of the current geomagnetic storm hitting Earth.

© Helioviewer Project/NASA/ESA

The ‘Lost Sisters’ of the Pleiades Fill the Entire Night Sky

12 November 2025 at 11:41
Astronomers identified more than 3,000 stars associated with the cluster, and there might be even more.

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A view of the Pleiades star cluster, which is also known as the Seven Sisters.

Blue Origin Scrubs Launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars

9 November 2025 at 19:32
The second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’s space company was halted by weather. The company may try again on Wednesday.

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The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket seen at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday.

Blue Origin Scrubs Launch of NASA’s ESCAPADE Mission to Mars

9 November 2025 at 19:32
The second flight of the orbital rocket from Jeff Bezos’s space company was halted by weather. The company may try again on Wednesday.

© Joe Skipper/Reuters

The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket seen at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Sunday.

Everyone’s Asking How Comet 3I/ATLAS Got to Our Solar System

8 November 2025 at 05:01
Scientists who study comets are struggling to keep up with popular speculation that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent to our solar system by an alien intelligence.

Trump Again Names Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA After Pulling His Nomination

4 November 2025 at 20:00
The nomination of the billionaire entrepreneur, private astronaut and Elon Musk ally was before the floor of the Senate when the president abruptly withdrew it in June.

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President Trump abruptly yanked his earlier nomination of Jared Isaacman because he was upset that Mr. Isaacman had contributed to the campaigns of some Democrats.
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