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The first American spacecraft to attempt to land on the Moon in more than half a century successfully launched early Monday, with private industry leading the charge.

A brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:18 am (0718 GMT) for its maiden voyage, carrying Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander.

To squeeze a bit more performance out of rocket engines, NASA is looking at a fundamentally different design with the RDRE

India landed a robot on the moon and NASA brought pieces of an asteroid back to Earth to study. A green comet illuminated night skies and a "ring of fire" eclipse captivated spectators from Oregon to Brazil. SpaceX launched nearly 100 rockets, and Japan and Europe put powerful new space telescopes into orbit.

In a historic milestone, the Bellatrix Space Team from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) has become the first Turkish team to enter the only international competition open to students organized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Istanbul clinched the second position among Europe's most brilliantly illuminated Christmas cities in the month of December, according to research conducted by a U.K.-based company that focussed on the utilization of outdoor artificial lights during nighttime.

Bulgarian neurologist Ognyan Kolev has contributed significantly to one of NASA's most extensive studies, recently published in the esteemed Journal of Vestibular Research.

For astronomers peering into the depths of the universe, Christmas came a little early this year.

A NASA telescope has captured the biggest solar flare in years, which temporarily knocked out radio communication on Earth.

The sun spit out the huge flare, resulting in two hours of radio interference in parts of the U.S. and other sunlit parts of the world. Scientists said it was the biggest flare since 2017.

After a hiatus of over half a century, the United States is on the cusp of a historic return to the moon, scheduled for January 25, 2024, marking a paradigm shift in lunar exploration. This mission, however, diverges from the Cold War-era ventures, as a private company, Astrobotic from Pittsburgh, spearheads this lunar probe - heralding a monumental milestone if successful.

Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago.