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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.
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In a record-breaking discovery, scientists detected our very own sun emitting an extraordinary amount of gamma rays - wavelengths of light known to carry the most energy of any other wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum. "We thought we had this star figured out, but that's not the casee," scientists said.
India's Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander has returned its first images from the moon after entering orbit around our nearest neighbor. The spacecraft successfully entered orbit around our natural satellite on Aug. 5, according to ISRO.
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Modern astronomy and physics stretch back centuries, so naturally, they've accumulated a lot of interesting names for objects, ideas and phenomena. And let's face it: Some are downright strange.
SpaceX's next Starship rocket just took a big step toward flight. The Starship first-stage prototype known as Booster 9 conducted a static fire test on Aug. 6, briefly igniting its 33 Raptor engines while anchored to the orbital launch mount at SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas.
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Sunday night at 10:41 p.m. EDT (0241 GMT on Aug. 7). The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth as planned, landing about 8.5 minutes after liftoff on the SpaceX droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
The X-59 QuessT (Quiet SuperSonic Technology) is an experimental jet that aims to reduce the amount of sonic boom produced by aircraft breaking the sound barrier. This NASA video shows its debut from its Lockheed Martin hangar.
