NASA recently announced that it had detected more than 5,000 exoplanets, so we asked astronomers, actors and an astronaut to share their favorite worlds orbiting distant stars.
Mark Vande Hei and two Russian counterparts returned from the International Space Station, where cooperation between NASA and Russia’s space agency continues despite the invasion of Ukraine.
The agency will seek bids for future lunar landing spacecraft from companies other than SpaceX, which won the first contract to return American astronauts to the moon.