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The shift in Intuitive Machines' landing date adds more uncertainty as to when the first privately funded U.S. moon lander will touch down on the surface.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have accidentally discovered an asteroid that NASA says is likely the smallest observed to date by the $10 billion-dollar observatory.

NASA reached full capacity of cargo and crew on its side of the International Space Station. But there are options coming soon to increase available room.

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals the earliest stages of galaxy formation in a time when the universe was less than 1 billion years old.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Fresh off the heels of a successful Artemis I mission, NASA is already preparing for its 2024 Artemis II mission that will take two astronauts around the moon. On Monday, dive teams practiced splashdown recovery operations at the Kennedy Space Center. That training will be going on for months and prepare the teams to recover the crew after splashdown. Once the astronauts splash down after their trip around the moon, they’ll exit the Orion capsule on an inflatable front porch, where they’ll be picked up by helicopters and flown back to the recovery ship. (James Tutten, WFTV.com/WFTV)Click here to download the free WFTV news and weather apps, click here to download the WFTV Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.

The four-person Crew-6 team completed an equipment integration test in preparation for their February launch from Central Florida, according to NASA.

The new moons were discovered using telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, and their orbits were confirmed with follow-up observations.

Crew-6 will head to the space station after its Feb. 26 launch, but three of its four crewmembers are preparing for the next generation of missions to the moon.

Thirty-five new astronauts joined the corps in 1978, among them women and people of color who reshaped the agency forever, a new book shows.

They say space is the place — and there’s a whole lot going on out there. Here’s what you may have missed this week in outer space.

Here’s what you may have missed this week in outer space. Early in the week, the internet was ablaze over an image captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that bears a striking resemblance to a bear. Jupiter now officially holds the title for most moons in our solar system, beating out Saturn's previous record of 83. The "Dragon Endeavour" launch also marked the first U.S.-led manned spaceflight since NASA's space shuttle program was retired in 2011. In addition to the tragic loss of the crew, the investigation that followed exposed a major flaw in the shuttle's heat shielding, marking the beginning of the end for the space shuttle program eight years later.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new image of the Tarantula Nebula, which lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The Space Foundation is recognizing the United States Postal Service and its 75 years of space-themed postage with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (AP) — Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. Saturn, the one-time leader, comes in a close second with 83 confirmed moons. For the record, Uranus has 27 confirmed moons, Neptune 14, Mars two and Earth one. Jupiter's newly discovered moons have yet to be named. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group.

Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92.

NASA has redirected the private Peregrine moon lander to a new touchdown site to increase science returns ahead of crewed Artemis missions.

A nuclear powered rocket would use a nuclear reactor to heat propellant to extreme temperatures before shooting the fuel through a nozzle to produce thrust.

NASA's Curiosity rover has rolled up on another meteorite on Mars, an iron-nickel rock the mission team has dubbed "Cacao."

Three (or more) smaller galactic clusters are combining to form an even larger galactic cluster known as Abell 2256. Using data across wavelengths, astronomers captured the galactic 'knot' in an image

Two spacewalking astronauts wiggled a stubborn strut into place, completing the installation of a solar array platform outside the International Space Station.

As NASA nears selecting its first crew to fly to the moon in more than 50 years, the agency has a new leader for its astronaut corps, Joe Acaba.

After acing its first-ever mission, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket appears ready to take the next big step — launching astronauts.

SpaceX successfully launches a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.

NASA astronaut Nicole Mann and Japan's Koichi Wakata are scheduled to make the second spacewalk of 2023 on Thursday morning (Feb. 2), and you can watch it live.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Twenty years ago Wednesday, the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew were lost when the spacecraft broke up during reentry over Texas. The lessons learned from that tragedy transformed the culture of NASA as an agency. On Feb. 1, 2003, Columbia was 16 minutes from touching down at the Kennedy Space Center when disaster struck and mission control lost contact with Columbia and her crew. Photos: Remembering the space shuttle Columbia tragedy“I’m a student of history, and I’m sure that someday in the future, there will be another accident,” said NASA associate administrator Bob Cabana. Columbia broke up upon re-entry to earth February 1, 2003.

Just 81 seconds into launch, a chunk of foam flew off the shuttle’s external fuel tank and struck Columbia’s heat-resistant panels on its left wing. The damage to the heat shield proved catastrophic when Columbia tried to return to Earth.

For one night only! Meet C/2022 E3 (her friends call her the green comet for short).

A rare comet that last visited during Neanderthal times is streaking back our way after 50,000, according to NASA.

Collins, who died in 2021 at age 90, was the first person to orbit the moon solo during Apollo 11 in 1969.

Sierra Space successfully finished its third module test for the Blue Origin-led Orbital Reef private space complex for NASA, on the long road to replace the International Space Station.

With the recent success of NASA's DART mission, asteroid deflection technology has made huge strides. Where does that leave Hollywood's more cinematic portrayals of asteroid smashing?

For the second flyby in a row, the beloved JunoCam aboard NASA's Jupiter mission, Juno, has struggled to snap photos as usual.

Seven astronauts lost their lives on space shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003, due to a series of technical and organizational problems at NASA.

Seven astronauts died 20 years ago when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated on reentry. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to NASA deputy administrator Pam Melroy about the loss and how NASA changed.

Seven astronauts died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry on Feb. 1, 2003. NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks back on the tragedy and how it shaped the agency.

Columbia's destruction and the loss of its crew triggered a sharp change of course for America's space program.

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took a a photograph of a formation that resembles a bear's face on the surface of the Red Planet.

Former NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, the highest U.S. honor reserved for spaceflight veterans.

After one of its instruments was briefly knocked offline, the James Webb Space Telescope returned to full science operations on Monday (Jan. 30).

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter flew for the 41st time on Mars Jan. 27, going 'there and back again' with 600 feet (183 meters) of flight distance over 109 seconds.

Two trailblazing former NASA astronauts will receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor on Tuesday (Jan. 31), and you can watch the ceremony live.

An enhanced in-space diet augmented with fruits, vegetables and fish could help boost astronaut health and performance, a new study finds.

The last time the medal was awardedm to Robert Crippen, the pilot of the first space shuttle flight, was in 2006.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover just dropped its 10th sample tube, completing a backup depot of material for future return to Earth.

While two names are cited repeatedly as top candidates for Artemis 2, a four-person moon mission, no official confirmation will come until at least late spring.

atory, in honor of the late moon telescope pioneer George R. Carruthers.

The surprise bear face spans more than 1 mile across.

A broken hill, an ancient crater and the human tendency to find faces everywhere may explain the teddy bear on Mars.

It's not every day you watch a rocket streak into space over Virginia's Eastern Shore, acing its first-ever liftoff from American soil.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning new image of two stars in the Orion Nebula, a region of stellar formation located about 1,450 light-years away.

Canadian company Mission Control Space Services has an interplanetary test forthcoming: proving its artificial intelligence on a moon rover mission.

The first U.S. woman in space will be honored with a monument outside the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. The same team made another Ride statue in 2022.

On this day in history, Jan. 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded after takeoff — killing all seven on board and shocking the nation. President Reagan addressed the nation that night.

NASA placed a supersonic combustion engine on the firing stand, and early tests for interplanetary exploration show promise.

A comet is streaking back our way after 50,000 years.

NASA is marking the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies during its annual tribute to fallen astronauts.

A crowd gathered Thursday morning at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center visitor complex to observe the agency’s annual Day of Remembrance.

An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest encounters ever recorded.

NASA and SpaceX announced a date for the upcoming Crew-6 launch from Kennedy Space Center.

The first Native American woman in space has ventured out on her first spacewalk.

NASA awarded Boeing with a contract to build and fly an experimental passenger plane with a fuel-saving truss-braced wing, part of the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project.

A years-long project to replace the aging power system aboard the International Space Station continues.

A list of rocket launches to look out for in the coming weeks and months.

The comet is the expected to make its closest pass of Earth sometime between Feb. 1 and 2, possibly even sooner sometime at the end of January.

Government science teams say that 2022 didn't quite set a record for heat, but it was in the top five or six warmest on record depending on who's doing the measuring.

SpaceX successfully retrieves a Dragon cargo capsule it sent to the International Space Station in November.

Russia will send up a new capsule next month to bring back three space station astronauts whose original ride home was damaged.

NASA crews will begin the process of undocking a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule from the International Space Station at 4:45 p.m.

A retired science satellite is about to fall from the sky but NASA says the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.”.

Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, has died.

From Artemis to Axiom, we take a look at 5 launches.

It was one of many wintry facts about Mars that NASA shared as an arctic blast pushed across the country last week.

NASA is providing an update Thursday on a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station.

The trajectory of a piece of space debris from a Russian rocket prompted flight control teams at NASA on Wednesday to stop preparations for a U.S. spacewalk at the International Space Station, according to the agency’s blog.

Just weeks after the resounding success of the Artemis I mission, NASA is already moving ahead with Artemis II — even though it won't launch until 2024.

It could be the end of the red dusty line for NASA's InSight lander on Mars.

Russia’s space corporation Roscosmos says a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station doesn’t require evacuation of the crew.

A U.S.-French satellite that will map most of the world's water has rocketed into orbit.

A Russian space official says a coolant leak from a Russian space capsule attached to the International Space Station could have been caused by a micrometeorite strike.

NASA and Russia’s space agency canceled a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts just as they were preparing to exit the International Space Station.

A planned spacewalk at the International Space Station was interrupted Wednesday after coolant fluid could be seen emitting from the Soyuz spacecraft, according to NASA officials.

A NASA rover on Mars by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed overhead last year and caught the sound.

As soon as Artemis I ended so perfectly Sunday, gently splashing down in the pacific, the Orion capsule scorched but intact, NASA looked ahead to Artemis II.

NASA’s Orion capsule is back from the moon.

Half a century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon’s surface, a minute piece of extraterrestrial rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.

NASA planned for a Sunday splashdown off Mexico’s coast for the Orion capsule as the Artemis I mission came to an end.

Warm again.

NASA's Orion capsule is on its way home from the moon to wrap up a three-week test flight.

The Orion capsule flew around the moon for its final time, before heading back to Earth.

The Orion spacecraft is getting ready to return to Earth and NASA is holding a news conference Wednesday evening to preview what happens next.

NASA is canceling a planned satellite that was going to intensely monitor greenhouse gases over the Americas because it got too costly and complicated.

At the halfway point in NASA's Artemis 1 mission, the unpiloted Orion moonship is chalking up a near-flawless flight, mission managers said Monday, beaming back spectacular images of Earth disappearing from view as it was eclipsed by the moon.

NASA is set to bring its latest update on the Artemis I mission on Monday as the mission is now at its midway point.

NASA's Orion capsule is now circling the moon in an orbit stretching tens of thousands of miles.

Orion, which launched into space atop NASA’s mega rocket over a week ago, is preparing to enter into distant retrograde around the moon Friday afternoon.

The European Space Agency has made history by selecting an amputee who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident to be among its newest batch of astronauts — one step toward its pioneering ambition to send someone with a physical disability into space.

NASA's Orion capsule has reached the moon, whipping around the far side and passing within about 80 miles.

A space capsule hurtles toward the moon.

NASA announced on Sunday that the mission management team polled “go” for Orion’s flyby past the moon.

NASA officials hold a news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss what the Orion capsule has next ahead of it.