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After two NASA astronauts splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday afternoon, more than a dozen private boats came up right to the capsule.
SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann

After undocking with the International Space Station Saturday evening, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley made it safely back down to Earth.
Crew Dragon

By Victor Tangermann

Shortly after rocketing into orbit, NASA's Perseverance rover experienced a couple of small hiccups: a minor communications and temperature glitch.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

At exactly 7:50 am EDT this morning, NASA successfully launched its Perseverance rover mission to Mars from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Besides a whole host of fascinating scientific instruments, NASA"s Perseverance rover will also be carrying small bits of space suit to the Martian surface.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just unveiled the winners of its "Exploring Hell" contest, in which it asked for designs for a rover that could survive a trip to Venus.
NASA

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has assigned crew members for its Crew-2 mission, possibly the third time a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft will visit the ISS with astronauts on board.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Perseverance will be bringing a rock back to Mars that scientists believe to have originated on Mars roughly 600,000 to 700,000 years ago.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is about to embark on its latest Mars mission, sending its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on its long journey to the Red Planet atop an Atlas V rocket.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is planning to watch newborn stars from high up in the Earth's atmosphere using a gigantic football stadium-sized balloon.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's next-gen Mars rover Perseverance is outfitted with not just one but two microphones. We could finally get to listen to the sounds of Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is asking university students to come up with a solution to a "messy problem:" lunar dust. It's not only extremely sticky, it's also a health threat.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Using a new toolkit that scientists are calling a "robot hotel," a robot just scanned the outside of the International Space Station for coolant leaks.
Robotics

By Dan Robitzski

Three historic joysticks used to control NASA's Apollo 11 command module have just sold for more than $780,000 at an auction, going against NASA's wishes.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientist Max Coleman has been trying to figure out if its possible to grow radishes in lunar soil analogues in his kitchen.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity rover encountered a strangely-colored rock on Mars and did what any smart robot would do: blasted it with a laser to see what was inside.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is expecting to start returning SpaceX Crew Dragon pilots Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to Earth from the ISS on August 1.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just released the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun, courtesy of the Solar Orbiter. And they already made a big discovery.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The first lunar settlers might live in the space version of an RV, which is currently being developed by JAXA, NASA, and Toyota.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Russian space corporation Roscomosos chief Dmitry Rogozin had no kind words to spare about NASA's efforts to return astronauts to the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope may finally launch in 2021 after having completed its final litany of critical software and electrical systems tests.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A company called Pioneer Astronautics just got millions in funding from NASA to develop a way to extract oxygen from beneath the lunar surface.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

After a lengthy "hammering session" of 150 strokes, the "mole" attached to NASA's InSight Mars lander started "bouncing in place."
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity rover is about to embark on an epic new adventure at Mount Sharp, a gigantic mountain on Mars, to look for signs of ancient life.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

According to a House appropriations bill released today, Congress doesn't intend to raise NASA's budget, setting aside the same $22.63 billion for 2021.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In a new white paper, a team of researchers argue that flying by Venus on future crewed missions to Mars could make a lot of sense.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

China, the UAE, and the U.S. all plan to launch Mars missions this month to capitalize on the planets' fortunate alignment.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Boeing staff in Mississippi just powered up the core stage of the super-heavy-duty Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that it's building for NASA.
Boeing

By Jon Christian

An Arizona forest fire has grown so large that satellites can easily see it from space, according to a new post by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
NASA

By Jon Christian

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Exact Center of the Solar System
Solar Power

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken got a tremendous view during their spacewalk on Monday. "Not bad for a view while working."
Crew Dragon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have yet to find any evidence of life on another planet.But that hasn't stopped some rogue scientists from making outlandish claims.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just delayed the launch date for its Mars rover, Perseverance. But barring any future delays, the mission should still go off without a hitch.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A team at NASA has figured out a way to stop touching your face during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: a pendant that scolds you every time you try.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

During an early-morning spacewalk, one of the wrist mirrors on NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy's spacesuit broke off almost immediately.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX Crew Dragon's solar arrays that provide power to the spacecraft are "degrading a little bit better than predicted."
Crew Dragon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA recently discovered an exoplanet the size of Neptune that whips around its star nearly once per week, all while being bombarded by solar storms.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In the coming years, NASA plans to crash a SpaceX rocket into a tiny moon as a test run for diverting asteroids. But the moon's name was way too boring.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just caught the "bat shadow" of a newborn star moving, as if it was a pair of flapping bat wings.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

The just-launched "Lunar Loo Challenge" tasks amateur rocket scientists to come up with a toilet that can handle near-zero and Moon gravity.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA announced today that it's renaming its Washington, DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black engineer in the space program.
NASA

By Jon Christian

This is What Sunsets on Other Planets Would Look Like
Off-World

By Victor Tangermann

This year, NASA wants to take a giant leap from scanning Mars' geographical features using surface-bound rovers to launching a small helicopter.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

When the Artemis astronauts land on the surface of the Moon, NASA expects them to be able to trek ten miles on foot each time they venture out.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, Pluto may have started its life as a hot world with a massive underground ocean of liquid water.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new study outlines a new discovery of a surprisingly young hot Jupiter class exoplanet called HIP 67522 b, some 490 light-years from Earth.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Rather than relying on GPS satellites, scientists propose using neutron stars, the dead remains of exploded stars, as "cosmic lighthouses."
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Virgin Galactic has signed a contract with NASA to start training astronauts for trips to the International Space Station.
Off-World

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's New Horizons space probe is so far away from Earth that it can see stars from entirely different angles than ever before.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

In a matter of weeks, NASA is planning to conduct a "demonstration" of the Crew Dragon with four of the five current ISS crew members on board.
Crew Dragon

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers made several new discoveries about what stars go through as they're dying thanks to new images by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests that strange bright spots observed on Saturn's moon Titan in the early 2000s may be evidence of dried up ancient lakes and seas.
Science & Energy

By Victor Tangermann

Boeing’s Spaceship Cockpit Looks Strikingly Different Than SpaceX’s
Boeing

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just discovered that Saturn's moon Titan is creeping out into space 100 times faster than they previously thought it was.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently flew near the surface of the asteroid Bennu to map out alternative landing sites for its sample collection mission.
Science & Energy

By Dan Robitzski

A new petition signed by a number of NASA employees is calling for president Donald Trump to stop taking credit for SpaceX and NASA accomplishments.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

According to ZDNet, SpaceX pulled off its historic Falcon 9 launch using a version of the open source operating system Linux.
NASA

By Jon Christian

NASA might soon end its reliance on Russia to send astronauts into space. In fact, Russian cosmonauts might soon have to chose SpaceX instead.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

After over a year, NASA's InSight Mars lander finally managed to get its thermal probe underground, where it can record the planet's internal temperature.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA pilots Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley described their experience of riding SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft to the ISS. It was a bit of a rough ride.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Watch NASA Astronauts Give Zero-G Tour of SpaceX’s New Capsule
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Dock With the ISS
Crew Dragon

By Victor Tangermann

At 4:33pm, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley launched into space on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a SpaceX Falcon 9.
NASA

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just ushered in a new era in space travel by becoming the private company to launch astronauts from American soil inside a commercial spacecraft.
SpaceX

By Victor Tangermann