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A SpaceX rocket will launch NASA's DART mission to crash into an asteroid (on purpose) overnight tonight and here's how to watch it online. Liftoff is set for 1:20 a.m. EST (0620 GMT) on Nov. 24.
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The Curiosity rover team "was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two versions of the black-and-white images from different times of the day and added colors to create a rare postcard from the Red Planet," NASA says.
A modified Progress cargo craft topped with the Prichal docking module is scheduled to lift off atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday at 8:06 a.m. EST (1306 GMT). Here's how to watch.
Sixty years after watching her father launch on the first American spaceflight, Laura Shepard Churchley is ready to follow in his footsteps. And she'll be doing it on Blue Origin's New Shepard with Good Morning America host Michael Strahan.
The James Webb Space Telescope will have to wait a few more days before taking to the skies after an unplanned clamp band release during launch preparations.
While plenty of spacecraft have drifted away into the metaphorical sunset, some have made dramatic exits. Here's six times spacecraft have slammed into comets, planets and moons like NASA's DART asteroid probe will.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used lasers to squeeze and cool lithium gas to densities and temperatures low enough that it scattered less light. A bit colder and it will turn invisible.
Mars may be covered in dozens of different nonbiological "false fossils," which could interfere with the search for life on the Red Planet, two researchers say.
NASA's mission DART will test our ability to redirect an asteroid by quite literally crashing into it - but the spacecraft will also test a new type of propulsion system for the agency.
Houston, home of the training facilities and mission control for NASA's operations on the International Space Station, is set to host the U.S. premiere of a virtual and augmented reality adventure to the orbiting outpost.
If you live in California or the southwest United States, you might be in for a launch show Tuesday night (Nov. 23) local time. NASA's DART will launch at 10:20 p.m. PST (1:20 a.m. EST).
