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NASA announces crew of next moon mission

NASA has chosen a crew of three men and one woman for a mission to circle the moon next year. CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood joins us with details on the astronauts and plans for their historic flight.

NASA introduces next astronauts to fly to the moon

Three NASA veterans, including one of the world's most experienced female spacewalkers, and a Canadian rookie astronaut will fly around the moon next year.

When you can see the "Pink Moon"

April's full moon will rise this week.

Astronomers find "the cow" 180 million light years away

"The cow" is a rare kind of star explosion that happens when it's too bright and evolves too quickly: "Put simply, they are weird, and this new observation makes them even weirder."

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit to cut 85% of its workforce

Rocket company is halting its operations indefinitely after failing to secure new funds following scrubbed mission.

Boeing's Starliner faces another launch slip, this time to late-July

Boeing had hoped to launch its first crew to the International Space Station in 2020, but major softwar problems in 2019 delayed test flights.

Recent cosmic explosion likely the "brightest of all time," NASA says

The signal from this burst, experts found, had been traveling for about 1.9 billion years before reaching Earth.

Five planets aligning in the sky this week

Five planets will be lining up in the sky in March and experts say the last Tuesday of the month will be the best night to see it. Senior CBS News space analyst Bill Harwood joins Errol Barnett and Lilia Luciano with more.

Time lapse video shows large asteroid's "very close" flyby of Earth

The airplane-sized asteroid passed by last week on a track that placed it between the Earth and moon's orbits, which is relatively rare.

New Shepard launch abort blamed on engine nozzle failure, Blue Origin says

Blue Origin says fixes are being implemented and New Shepard sub-orbital flights will resume "soon."

3D printed rocket blasts off but fails to reach orbit on maiden flight

While the Terran 1 rocket didn't reach orbit, builder Relativity Space says it achieved major objectives.

Large asteroid to fly between Earth and the moon on Saturday

The space rock's anticipated trajectory places it at about half the distance to the moon, so people with telescopes may be able to see it from Earth.

5 planets will align across the sky on Tuesday night. Here's how to see them

Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will align on Tuesday night.

Mystery solved after strange streaks of light seen in California sky

The flaming bits of wreckage created a "spectacular light show" and were going thousands of miles per hour, an astronomer said.