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The astronauts SpaceX's Crew-2 mission talk toilet trouble in space and more, but when will they land?

According to agency officials, the crew could come home aboard their SpaceX Dragon capsule as early as Sunday (Nov. 7), if weather permits. "We don't know exactly ...

NASA picks landing site at the moon's south pole for ice-drilling robot

NASA has set its sights on the moon's south pole in its quest for ice. This week, the space agency and the company Intuitive Machines announced Shackleton Crater landing site at the south pole of the moon for a small lander set to launch next year.

China launches sustainable development satellite SDGSAT-1 to study Earth from space

China continued its rapid pace of space launches late Thursday by sending a satellite into orbit as part of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A Long March 6 rocket, one of China's new-generation launch vehicles, lifted off from among the ...

New Perseverance rover photos from Mars show tantalizing layered rocks

These strikingly layered Mars rocks may be the Perseverance rover's next sampling target. Perseverance recently snapped some nice photos of layered rocks on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, and mission team members shared two of them Thursday (Nov.

The mission to find alien life on Phobos, Mars' mystifying moon

CNET

CNET

Unfortunately for would-be Martian hunters, no microbes lurk within the stuff that makes it to Earth. "Martian meteorites don't have any signatures of Martian life," says Tomohiro Usui, a planetary scientist at JAXA. The atmosphere mostly takes care of ...

NASA, Intuitive Machines announce landing site location for lunar drill

In late 2022, NASA will send an ice-mining experiment attached to a robotic lander to the lunar South Pole on a ridge not far from Shackleton crater—a location engineers and scientists have assessed for months. NASA and Intuitive Machines, ...

The Taurid meteor shower of 2021 is peaking now. Here's what to expect.

For the next week or so, if you happen to be outside during the overnight hours and happen to catch a glimpse of a bright "shooting star" with a yellow-orange or ruddy hue you might very well have just caught sight of a Taurid meteor.

Next-Generation Very Large Array strongly endorsed by Decadal Survey

The report, in which ngVLA shared second ranking among ground-based projects, was the culmination of a lengthy process aimed at developing a comprehensive research strategy and vision for a decade of transformative science at the frontiers of astronomy and ...

Blue Origin loses lawsuit, allowing NASA to move ahead with SpaceX moon lander

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

The decision apparently ends a six-month delay in the start of NASA's contract with SpaceX for a human-rated moon landing vehicle based on the company's Starship mega-rocket. The Human Landing System is the ...

No toilet for returning SpaceX crew, stuck using diapers

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station as early as this weekend will be stuck using diapers on the way home because of their capsule's broken toilet. NASA astronaut Megan McArthur described the situation ...