NASA Says Mars Mission Is a Thriving Concern
NASA officials involved with the Perseverance Mars rover landing waxed exuberant about the progress of the mission during a Friday press conference.
Read moreNASA officials involved with the Perseverance Mars rover landing waxed exuberant about the progress of the mission during a Friday press conference.
Read moreFor the second time this week, a pair of astronauts floated outside Friday to get the International Space Station ready for new solar panels.
Read moreSpacewalking astronauts ventured out Sunday to install support frames for new, high-efficiency solar panels arriving at the International Space Station later this year.
Read moreThe stunning burst of media — including the first-ever audio recording on the desert planet — captured by Perseverance provides a front-row view of the barren planet where scientists hope to uncover evidence of ancient life.
Read moreNASA scientists sent microbes to Earth’s stratosphere to test their endurance and discovered they can survive the harsh conditions on Mars.
Read moreThe landing culminates a seven-month, 293-million-mile journey across space to answer one of our species’ most pressing questions: Has life ever existed beyond our planet?
Read moreA NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
Read moreA pair of spacewalking astronauts completed a four-year effort to modernize the International Space Station’s power grid on Monday, installing one last battery.
Read moreNASA’s rover Perseverance is only weeks away from landing on Mars’ Jezero Crater, where it will carry out a suite of scientific experiments — foremost of which is the search for any record of ancient life on the red planet.
Read moreSpacewalking astronauts installed a high-speed data link outside the International Space Station’s European lab on Wednesday and tackled other improvements.
Read moreA newly launched European-U.S. satellite designed to continue a decades-long record of tracking global sea levels has sent back its first measurements, NASA said Thursday.
Read moreSpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first time the company has two capsules in orbit at the same time.
Read moreA satellite jointly developed by Europe and the United States being launched this weekend will greatly help scientists keep track of the rise in global sea levels, one of the most daunting effects of climate change, a senior official at the European Space Agency said Friday.
Read moreSpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA by a private company.
Read moreeExploring how to shelter its next generation of lunar pioneers, NASA is partnering with a design firm to 3D print a structure made of a moon-soil simulant.
Read more(CN) — Learning more about stellar flares could be key to determining the habitability of exoplanets, researches said in a
Read moreSamples taken from an asteroid rotating like a child’s top across our solar system will be collected by a NASA spacecraft later this month and will arrive on Earth in 2023. The asteroid, cosmically speaking, may not be far behind, and could collide with our planet within 200 years.
Read moreNASA announced plans Friday to clean up a Cold War-era rocket fuel testing site in Southern California — plans that have upset residents who say the space agency and the Trump administration have punted any responsibility for a full cleanup and will leave most of the area contaminated.
Read moreNASA’s first new space potty in decades — a $23 million titanium toilet better suited for women — is getting a not-so-dry run at the International Space Station before eventually flying to the moon.
Read moreAn asteroid the size of a school bus is headed our way, but NASA says the space rock will zoom safely past Earth on Thursday.
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