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NASA's Mars rover Perseverance poses for an epic snapshot by its tiny helicopter Ingenuity in this stunning photo. But the rover may have some complaints for Ingenuity, which cut off its head!
The moon will make a close approach to the Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades star cluster before dawn early on Aug. 9. Here's where and when to look for you early-bird stargazers.
If you can't wake up before dawn to see the moon shine with the Pleiades, don't fret. Late tonight (but earlier than dawn, of course) you can still marvel at the quarter moon as the it reaches its midpoint of illumination for its currently lunar cycle. Here's what to look for and when.
After years of delay, Boeing has added a few months more.
In a press conference on Aug. 7, Boeing and NASA pushed back the first crewed test flight of the Starliner spacecraft to no earlier than March 2024, and even that target is not certain. Here's what we know about the long and winding road for Starliner so far.
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The roughly 600-foot-wide (180 meters) asteroid has received the designation 2022 SF289, and is expected to approach Earth to within 140,000 miles (225,000 kilometers). That distance is shorter than that between our planet and the moon, which are on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) apart.
SpaceX launched 15 more of its Starlink internet satellites Monday night and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea. It was the second Starlink launch in the last two days.
A lightweight version of the International Space Station's robotic arm will help space sustainability company Astroscale remove decades-old space junk from Earth's orbit in the first mission of its kind.
The trippy storyline of the "Those Old Scientists" episode, directed by "Star Trek" royalty Jonathan Frakes from a fun script by Kathryn Lyn & Bill Wolkoff, includes a time portal incident that sends "Lower Decks" Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler tumbling back in time 120 years, where Captain Pike and his 23rd century Enterprise crew need to return them to their existence before they change the timeline.
