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Thruster malfunctions and more helium leaks of popped up on Boeing's Starliner astronaut test flight. The glitches delayed Starliner's docking at the ISS, but so far nothing insurmountable has arisen, officials say.
In 2022, Jared Isaacman announced a proposal to save Hubble with a commercial mission in collaboration with SpaceX. But NASA isn't interested in a commercial Hubble reboost mission. For now, that is.
SpaceX launched its massive Starship vehicle on a fourth flight test on June 6, leading to some breathtaking photography. See how the spectacular unfolded in photos here!
Unistellar's new smart binoculars, called Envision, are currently $400 off on an early bird sale. That's a saving of 40% on a pair of binoculars that integrate augmented reality to enhance both nighttime and day-time viewing.
The terms 'northern lights', 'space weather' and 'geomagnetic storm' were googled more in May 2024 than in any other month in the search engine's history. With April's total solar eclipse, and Mid-May's widespread aurora show, public interest in the sun has been much higher than usual. As photos and discussions of the eclipse and northern lights flooded social media and secured segments on prime-time news broadcasts, Google search inquiries for these topics shot up significantly.
This year's U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony was also a reunion of sorts, as the two honorees took to the stage under the spacecraft on which they once crossed paths. NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida hosted the ceremony under its display of the retired space shuttle Atlantis on Saturday (June 1). A full house of former astronauts, space program officials and the public were there to see David Hilmers and Marsha Ivins be added to the hall's ranks.
A mysterious pit on the flank of an ancient volcano on Mars has generated excitement recently because of what it could reveal beneath the surface of the Red Planet. It possibly opens into a larger cave that could provide a sheltered environment for both astronauts and hypothetical Martian life.
When Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa canceled his planned flight around the moon on due to delays with SpaceX's Starship megarocket, the eight people he picked to fly with him were understandably surprised.
"I'll need to allow myself to grieve this loss as it became a big part of my life, my dreams, and my visions," one says.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the richest "menu" of hydrocarbons ever seen in a planet-forming disk. This observation, which involved the protoplanetary disk around a tiny star, also revealed the first detection of ethane outside the solar system.
"This is profoundly different from the composition we see in disks around solar-type stars."
Destiny 2 is coming to an end… sort of. The Light and Darkness saga, which began in 2014 with the release of the first Destiny, ends this year with The Final Shape, Destiny 2's most ambitious expansion yet. This is everything we know about it.
