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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, Italian Space Agency President Giorgio Saccoccia, and leadership from the U.S…
In the days after the solstice, look to the early morning sky in late June to find Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn line up in a strai…
SpaceX has cleared a key hurdle for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from Texas. The Federal Aviation Administration concluded an environmental review Monday of Elon Musk’s Starship base. The agency saw no significant environmental concerns, but is requiring more than 75 actions to reduce impacts to the region. The FAA says it's no guarantee a launch license will be issued since other factors still must be met at the Boca Chica site. Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and meant to carry people to the moon and Mars.
China has launched a new three-person mission to complete work on its permanent orbiting space station. The Shenzhou 14 crew will spend six months on the Tiangong station, during which they will oversee the addition of two laboratory modules to join the main Tianhe living space that was launched in April 2021. Their spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert at 10:44 a.m. Sunday atop the crewed space flight program’s workhorse Long March 2F rocket. Commander Chen Dong and fellow astronauts Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe will assemble the three-module structure joining the existing Tianhe with Wentian and Mengtian, due to arrive in July and October.
China is preparing to launch a new three-person mission to complete work on its permanent orbiting space station. The China Manned Space Agency announced Saturday that the spaceship is due to blast off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert at 10:44 a.m. Sunday. The Shenzhou 14 crew will spend six months on the Tiangong station, during which they will oversee the addition of two laboratory modules to join the main Tianhe living space that was launched in April 2021. The mission includes veteran Commander Chen Dong, Liu Yang, who was China's first female astronaut to reach space in 2012, and first-timer Cai Xuzhe. China’s space program launched its first astronaut into orbit in 2003.
The planets are about to align, literally.
Mars and Jupiter will meet for a conjunction over Memorial Day weekend. The best night to catch this event is the early morning of May 29. Add…
Why are there massive scratches across Mars’ surface?
NASA administrator Bill Nelson testified Tuesday before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on NASA's fiscal year 2023 budget request. Ne…
A meteor shower, an eclipse and a close-knit planetary conjunction highlight the top astronomy events to mark down on your May 2022 calendar.
We’re already junking up the place. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn will align through the last week of April, with the moon joining the formation near the end of the month.
The Curiosity rover just avoided a near run-in with some razor-sharp rocks on Mars.
On March 28, the Biden administration requested $26 billion for NASA's 2023 budget, the largest in the space agency's history.
The Ingenuity helicopter, initially designed for five flights, is about to begin its second year of flying on Mars.
If NASA adopts FLEX and its payload platform, it would become the first passenger-capable rover to ply the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in th…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is aiming to succeed with his next-generation rocket Starship, which has moved from the drawing board into a series of to…
Its first attempt to collect a core sample earlier this month amounted to a crumbly pile.
A new study suggests those giant water deposits on Mars are something a little less useful to humanity.
The samples will be cached on the planet before making a one way trip back to Earth sometime in the next 10 years.
Recreating Martian soil has revealed yet another hurdle for life on Mars.
Boston Dynamics' dog-like robot, Spot, has been given artificial intelligence to prepare it for possible future Mars missions, autonomously ex…