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NASA's Juno probe reveals secrets of Jupiter's atmosphere in 3D

A NASA spacecraft is giving the best-ever 3D model of the largest planet of our solar system. The Juno mission is using its second extended phase to peer far into the clouds of Jupiter ...

Tom Marshburn brings extensive spaceflight experience to Crew-3 mission

NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, a medical doctor and veteran of launches on the space shuttle and Russia's Soyuz spacecraft, joins three rookie space fliers on SpaceX's Crew Dragon "Endurance" poised for liftoff on mission to the International Space Station.

This astronaut is spending his SpaceX launch delay cleaning up a Florida beach

A German astronaut is showing his love for Earth during a few extra days on the planet's surface before his first space mission. Matthias Maurer, who is waiting with the rest of Crew-3 team for a delayed ride to the International Space Station, ...

NASA scientists propose new 'alien life evidence' scale

As the search for extraterrestrial life heats up, scientists may need to step up their reporting game a bit. Researchers should report evidence for alien life on a scale similar to the technological readiness level scale commonly used to assess the ...

Space station astronauts eat tacos with space-grown chile peppers

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur, one of the seven crewmembers currently living and working at the International Space Station (ISS), created what she called "my best space tacos yet," using some of the newly harvested peppers, some fajita beef and rehydrated ...

Leaky SpaceX toilet problem will force astronauts to use backup 'undergarments'

CNN

CNN

NASA did not say how long the four astronauts — NASA's Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency, and Akihiko Hoshide from Japan — will have to be on board their Crew Dragon capsule with an inoperable ...

Crew Dragon launch delayed by "minor medical issue" with an astronaut

The agency said the delay is not related to COVID-19 and it is not a medical emergency, but no other details were provided. It's not known which of the "Crew-3" astronauts — commander Raja Chari, pilot Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron and European Space ...

The Verge

Launching myself into this decade's space race

The Verge

The same year that The Verge came into being, another decades-long program was coming to an end. In July 2011, NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis, with a crew of four on board, blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, bound for the ...

SpaceX's Crew-3 astronaut launch for NASA delayed by 'minor medical issue'

Crew-3 will send NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Thomas Marshburn, and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Matthias Maurer, to the International Space Station for a six-month stay. The quartet will ride to the orbiting lab in a SpaceX Crew ...

The Planetary Society

The Planetary Society's Best of 2021 Awards

The Planetary Society

Most exciting moment in planetary science: Hayabusa2 returning samples of Ryugu to Earth: In late 2020 (after our Best of 2020 campaign had concluded) JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off ...