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How NASA's Demo-2 astronauts will make a historic splashdown on Earth

Just over 45 years since the last American astronaut splashed down in the ocean, NASA and its partner SpaceX are set to land astronauts in the sea again on Aug. 2. The agency announced last week that SpaceX's Demo-2 commercial crew mission, carrying ...

NASA's next Mars rover, Perseverance, will launch Thursday. Here's how to watch.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is counting down to the launch of its newest Mars rover. The car-sized robot, named Perseverance, is set to lift off toward the Red Planet Thursday (July 30) during a two-hour window that opens at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT), ...

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has a key role in the search for ancient life

As NASA's Mars Perseverance rover prepares to launch, we take a look at what we know about life on the Red Planet. Shares. Mars as seen from orbit by NASA's Viking mission. (Image: © NASA/JPL). As NASA's latest Mars-bound rover readies for launch, ...

SpaceX, NASA watch weather for historic astronaut splashdown on Sunday

SpaceX is ready to return its first NASA astronaut crew to Earth, but a potential tropical cyclone brewing in the Atlantic could cause delays. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, called Endeavour, is scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast on Sunday ...

The sounds of Mars: NASA's Perseverance rover packs microphones to hear the Red Planet

For the first time ever, mission planners hope, NASA's Perseverance rover will collect the sounds of Mars — starting as the spacecraft plummets through the atmosphere to its landing site at Jezero Crater. Perseverance will land on Feb. 18, 2021, during a risky ...

Why NASA's Mars rover Perseverance will use nuclear power to keep itself warm

A spacecraft is only as strong as its power source, which is why when NASA was designing its Perseverance Mars rover, the agency turned to radioactive plutonium. The plutonium that will be blasting off the planet on Thursday (July 30) isn't in the same form ...

NASA's next Mars rover rolls out to launch pad atop Atlas V rocket

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket rolled to the pad today (July 28) in preparation for launching NASA's Perseverance rover to Mars. The mission is scheduled to blast off from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at ...

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launch: Live updates

NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will lift off July 30 at 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT) on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rover will take about seven months to travel ...

'Quantum negativity' can power ultra-precise measurements

Scientists have found that a physical property called 'quantum negativity' can be used to take more precise measurements of everything from molecular distances to gravitational waves. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, Harvard and MIT, ...

'Giant atoms' enable quantum processing and communication in one

MIT researchers have introduced a quantum computing architecture that can perform low-error quantum computations while also rapidly sharing quantum information between processors. The work represents a key advance toward a complete quantum ...