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The Progress 96 cargo spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for an automated docking to the Poisk module.

The Progress 93 resupply ship from Roscosmos, carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 73 crew, is pictured on Sept. 13, 2025, automatically approaching the International Space Station.

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Credit: NASA The Republic of Albania will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 12 p.m.

5 min read NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion’s ‘Wind’ Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star’s outflow, called a stellar wind, being c…

Chicago, Illinois (bottom center), appears prominently in this nighttime view of the United States—dotted with city lights including Detroit, Michigan; Cincinnati, Ohio; and New York City–taken from the International Space Station as it orbited 259 miles…

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft launches NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station on March 14, 2025.

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The four members representing NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station pose for a portrait next to the Dragon spacecraft mockup after completing a preflight training session at SpaceX’s facility in Hawthorne, California.

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From left, Expedition 75 crew members Sophie Adenot of ESA, Anna Kikina of Roscosmos, and Jessica Meir of NASA gather together for a portrait inside the Kibo laboratory module.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on May 15, 2026, carrying about 6,500 pounds of science, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station during the company’s 34th commercial resupply mission for NASA.

The Space Weather Living History project captures, documents and preserves the living history of space weather, and aims to inspire the next generation of scientists.

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By Simon Bélanger, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), Québec, Canada What an extraordinary feeling it is to witness the beauty of these icy landscapes, where the ice sheet flows down to the sea through fjords with steep, towering walls—watching, in r…

The rollout ceremony for NASA’s first space shuttle, OV-101, coincided with Constitution Day of the nation’s bicentennial on Sept.17, 1976.

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Data Being Restored from Two NASA Solar Missions 1 min read Following a data outage in November 2024, some data from NASA’s SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) and full data from NASA’s IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) has been successfully resto…

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 members (from left), Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos, Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir of NASA, and Sophie Adenot of ESA speak to journalists on the ground during a news conference on Wednesday, Sept. 16.

In the sessions of this teacher’s magnetism activity guide, “Exploring Magnetism,” your students will act as scientists discovering magnetic fields and electromagnetism through inquiry and measurement.

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