50 days after launch, Starliner crew has no landing date | Former astronaut Mark Kelly on shortlist for Harris' VP pick | Where and when to see the northern lights in 2024
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Starliner is rated to stay in space for up to 90 days as NASA and Boeing examine issues with helium propulsion and thrusters. The spacecraft will do a "hot fire" test in orbit soon, as NASA and the company continue to probe the cause of thruster failures and a helium leak in space.
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut, is on Vice President Kamala Harris' shortlist to be her running mate as she pursues becoming the next president of the United States. It is the first time that someone who has flown into space has been on the ticket for the White House.
Nothing quite beats seeing the northern lights, or aurora borealis, in all their glory. But where and when can you see them? Lucky for us the next few years are going to be the best for seeing the northern lights due to heightened solar activity as we approach "solar maximum" in the current solar cycle.
China has test-fired a new engine for a planned rocket designed to take astronauts to the moon. The liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine, sometimes referred to as the YF-75E, was tested by the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the country's state-owned space contractor.
By combining a new image of a giant galaxy cluster with older X-ray data, scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) have demonstrated how the cluster's galaxies are suffused by huge amounts of gas that can reach scorching temperatures up to 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit).
NASA's Perseverance rover may have found signs of ancient life in a rock on Mars; the mission team's scientists are ecstatic, but remain cautious as further analysis is needed to confirm the discovery.
There are plenty of Star Wars comic book series, both large and small, to choose from in the post-Disney age of the franchise. With Marvel back at the helm since 2015, the galaxy far, far away has been thoroughly explored, with comics in several eras from across the Star Wars timeline. Now, Marvel's main Star Wars series is finally leaving original Star Wars movies behind and moving into the early days of the New Republic.
