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Boeing's Starliner is scheduled for its first crewed flight to the ISS on May 6, with NASA confirming the date. The spacecraft was recently moved to the Vertical Integration Facility and will be launched via ULA's Atlas V rocket. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will test the spacecraft’s capabilities over a 10-day mission.

NASA has been closely tracking the asteroid’s path and confirmed that it will maintain a safe distance from Earth, Times Now reported.

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Tracy C. Dyson are set to reach the space station this month and in March.

The Hubble Telescope has captured a bow-shaped nebula which is about 4,000 light-years away.

Akshata, an Indian researcher, became the first woman of the country to lead science and robotic operations on Earth and Mars from NASA.

“We have liftoff! NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, along with the agency’s DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) technology demonstration,” NASA said in a blogpost. 

While Europa stands out as a celestial body where life could possibly exist, NASA underscores that the mere presence of carbon is not sufficient for life to thrive.

The asteroid sample will help researchers learn about how our planet and solar system formed, as well as the origin of organics that may have led to life on Earth.

NASA had commissioned an independent study to better understand how the space agency can contribute to ongoing government efforts to further the study observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as balloons, aircraft, or as known natural phenomena from a scientific perspective.

The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid of the same name, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.

“Developing technologies that let us use resources on the Moon and Mars is critical to build a long-term lunar presence, create a robust lunar economy, and allow us to support an initial human exploration campaign to Mars," NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy.

The Chandrayaan-3 mission, led by scientists at ISRO, made history on Wednesday after India became the first nation in the world to land near the South Pole of the moon. India also became the fourth nation to make a soft landing on the moon after the erstwhile USSR, the US, and China.

Recently an image of the moon showcasing a dome-like structure on its surface went viral on social media.

According to ISS Programme Manager Joel Montalbano, the outage occurred on Tuesday morning and lasted about 90 minutes.

From wildfires, flooding, heatwaves, a record hot June, and July likely to be the warmest absolute month on record, millions of people over the globe are experiencing the effects of extreme weather.