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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity won't fly until next week at the earliest

We'll have to wait a bit longer to see the first Mars helicopter lift off. NASA had originally aimed to conduct the first Red Planet flight of its Ingenuity helicopter — the first-ever powered flight on a world beyond Earth — on Sunday (April 11). A high-speed ...

'Space Hero' reality show competition signs space act agreement with NASA

However, this agreement "does not authorize a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station," a NASA spokesperson told Space.com. Rather, it is "a nonreimbursable Space Act Agreement for the purpose ...

NASA again postpones historic Ingenuity helicopter flight on Mars

Washington Post

Washington Post

Initially, NASA's "Wright Brother's moment" was slated for Sunday but was pushed back to Wednesday after the space agency discovered an issue with the aircraft's rotors. Then, late Monday, NASA said it's pushing the launch back again to modify and reinstall ...

SpaceX's SN15 Starship prototype rolls out to launch pad

That previous vehicle, SN11, performed well during most of its 6.2-mile-high (10 kilometers) flight on March 30 but suffered a serious problem while gearing up for landing. (SpaceX skipped the SN12, SN13 and SN14 iterations, going directly from SN11 to SN15.).

There's a fix for what ails the Mars helicopter's software

CNN

CNN

Ingenuity conducted a high-speed test of its rotors Friday, but the command sequence ended early due to a watchdog timer that expired. This early end of the test happened when the helicopter was trying to shift the flight computer from preflight into flight mode.

Ancient ammonoids' shell designs may have aided buoyancy control

These wavy lines are called sutures, and they reflect the complexity of the edges of septa, or the walls that separated the chambers in the ammonoids' shells. Researchers previously focused on the roles of these complex ...

NASA satellites detect signs of volcanic unrest years before eruptions

This is, in part, because no two volcanoes behave in exactly the same way and because few of the world's 1,500 or so active volcanoes have monitoring systems in place. Under the best of circumstances, scientists can accurately forecast an eruption of a ...

Novel theory addresses centuries-old physics problem

The 'three-body problem,' the term coined for predicting the motion of three gravitating bodies in space, is essential for understanding a variety of astrophysical processes as well as a large class of mechanical problems, and has occupied some of the world's ...

Fireball meteor burns up over South Florida

A sparkling fireball zoomed across the sky near West Palm Beach, Florida on Monday night (April 13), and local news teams and home security systems caught footage of its dramatic descent. @CoralTap Just saw this in the sky from Parkland at 10:16PM.

Cascading effects of noise on plants persist over long periods and after noise is removed

Though noise may change moment by moment for humans, it has a more lasting effect on trees and plants. A new Cal Poly study reveals that human noise pollution affects the diversity of plant life in an ecosystem even after the noise has been removed.