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Watch astronauts install new space station solar arrays in a spacewalk today

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet will spend about 6.5 hours working together in the vacuum of space for today's spacewalk, or extravehicular activity (EVA). NASA will ...

Spacewalking astronauts run out of time to roll out first of new solar arrays on space station

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet, a French astronaut with the European Space Agency (ESA), wrapped up their seven-hour and 15 minute spacewalk at 3:26 p.m. EDT (1926 GMT) on Wednesday (June 16), during which they partially ...

China wants to build a sustainable human presence on Mars. Here's how.

China is looking at the ways of getting astronauts to Mars and back safely and potentially establishing a long-term presence on the Red Planet. That's according to a senior Chinese space industry official speaking Wednesday (June 16) at the Global Space ...

China Launches 3 Astronauts Toward New Space Station

The New York Times

The New York Times

There will soon be two places in orbit where astronauts live. On a clear, sunny Thursday morning in the Gobi Desert, China launched three astronauts to rendezvous with the country's nascent space station. They waved to cameras in their capsule as their trip ...

Rocket Lab wins contract to design twin Mars spacecraft for NASA

The mission could help scientists better understand how and why Mars' climate has changed over time, as the barren planet looks quite different today than in the ancient past when it had a thick atmosphere and, scientists think, plentiful liquid water on its ...

China will launch 3 astronauts to space station tonight. Here's how to watch live.

China is poised to launch its first crewed spaceflight in nearly five years. The Shenzhou-12 mission is scheduled to lift off tonight (June 16) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 9:22 p.m. EDT (0122 GMT and 9:22 a.m. Beijing time on ...

China launches 3 astronauts to new space station

China's new space station is about to get its first human visitors. The Shenzhou 12 mission launched Wednesday (June 16) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, rising off the pad atop a Long March 2F rocket at 9:22 p.m. EDT (0122 GMT ...

Phys.Org

Quantum computers could outperform classical computers at many tasks, but only if the errors that are an inevitable part of computational tasks are isolated rather than widespread events. Now, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found ...

How our ancestors conquered the dark to produce the world's oldest art

Based as much as possible on archaeological evidence found in Paleolithic caves, the researchers made their own versions of prehistoric torches and grease lamps. The team then tested how well they worked inside Isuntza 1 Cave in the Basque region of ...

The 1970s moon buggies are still up there. GM and Lockheed Martin want to make new ones

(CNN) There are three 50-year-old cars parked on the moon. Now, General Motors and Lockheed Martin wants to build some new ones and put them on the moon, too. In the 1960s, GM worked with Boeing (BA) to create the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Three of ...