5516 Results From "nasa"

According to leaked documents obtained by Ars Technica, NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface on the Moon are in serious trouble.
Moon

Leaked Documents Show NASA’s Moon Landing Plans in Chaos

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may have just broken up into well over a dozen pieces.
Astronomy

The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Have Just Exploded

Chinese scientists want to build a magnetic launch system that spins up and then throws cargo from the Moon's surface to Earth.
Moon

Chinese Scientists Working on Magnetic Launch System to Fling Cargo From Moon’s Surface Back to Earth

After its splashdown in the Pacific, NASA's Orion spacecraft, back from beyond the Moon, is now on solid ground, and it's looking pretty burned.
Advanced Transport

Close Up Shows Charred NASA Capsule After Returning From the Moon

China has unveiled a powerful "hypergravity machine" that can generate forces almost two thousand times stronger than Earth's gravity.
Robots and Machines

China Builds Wild Gravity Machine

SpaceX has sure gotten a lot of government welfare — and apparently, it doesn't have to pay taxes, either.
Elon Musk

Despite Getting Billions From the Government, Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pays Basically No Taxes

NASA's InSight lander detected a magnitude 4 marsquake on Christmas Eve last year, which turned out to be a massive meteorite impact.
Mars

Meteorite Hit Mars So Hard NASA Thought It Was a Quake

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is adjusting its orbit to make sure it won't get pelted with even more micrometeorites.
James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Adjusting James Webb Orbit to Get Damaged by Micrometeoroids Less

NASA's astronaut social media handbook just dropped — and they've got some staunch guidelines for safely tweeting on the ISS.
NASA

NASA Tells Astronauts That Tweeting Isn’t As Important as Staying Alive

SpaceX has had to delay the launch of its Polaris Dawn mission by at least a day after officials found a helium leak.
SpaceX

SpaceX Discovers Starliner-Like Leak Before Launch of Space Tourists

Russia's space agency has confirmed that air is continuing to leak from its segment of the International Space Station.
Off-World

Russia Confirms Small But Growing Leak in Space Station

On a recent podcast appearance, Elon Musk declared that his Starship rocket was on par with the evolution of multicellular life.
Elon Musk

Elon Says His New Rocket Is as Important as the Origin of Life Itself

11,000 pounds of supplies and scientific instruments are on the way to the ISS, but the spacecraft's main engine shut down unexpectedly.
International Space Station

Experimental Spacecraft Headed to Space Station Suddenly Shuts Down

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.
Black Holes

There’s Something Impossible About This Ravenous Black Hole, Scientists Say

Scientists have confirmed NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is indeed exploring an ancient lake. Will its collected samples hold signs of life?
Mars

Scientists Suspect Mars Rover Could Have Already Scooped Up Signs of Life

NASA shared pictures following its Ingenuity Mars helicopter's final flight, showing some gnarly damage to its four rotor blades.
Mars

Photos Show Catastrophic Damage to Mars Helicopter

NASA's Terra satellite has captured a stunning image of "fallstreak holes" or "hole-punch clouds," scientifically known as cavum clouds.
Science & Energy

Satellite Spots Circular Holes in Clouds Over Florida

NASA has announced that after successfully smashing its Double Asteroid Reduction Test (DART) into an asteroid, the space rock ejected two comet tails.
NASA

Asteroid NASA Smashed a Spacecraft Into Grew Two “Unexpected” Tails

Scientists have identified several caves carved by water and they may have held or have evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Exobiology

Scientist Say They’ve Found Caves on Mars That May Contain Life

Akatsuki, JAXA's Venus probe and the only spacecraft in orbit around the planet, suddenly fell out of contact in late April.
Off-World

Japan’s Venus Probe Goes Mysteriously Missing