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Soyuz capsule leak at space station prompts Russia to postpone another spacewalk

Russia's space agency has called off another spacewalk at the International Space Station as engineers investigate why a Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft docked there began leaking coolant late Wednesday (Dec. 14). Officials ...

NASA probe to inspect the solar system's most active volcanic world

After exploring Jupiter's moons Ganymede and Europa, NASA's Juno probe is about to set its sights on the third of the giant planet's four main moons — the mysterious volcanic moon Io. Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, received commands ...

Russian space agency reports Soyuz capsule was damaged due to leak on space station

The agency issued a statement on Thursday (Dec. 15) stating that decisions about the future of the MS-22 crew are still being made.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 36th Red Planet flight

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter now has three dozen Mars flights under its belt. The 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity aced its 36th Red Planet sortie on Sunday (Dec. 10), staying aloft for 60.5 seconds on a flight that covered 361 feet (110 meters) of ...

SpaceX fires up Starship prototype again ahead of test flight (video)

SpaceX continues to gear up for the first-ever orbital test flight of its Starship Mars rocket. SpaceX performed another "static fire" test today (Dec. 15) at its South Texas facility, lighting up Ship 24, a prototype of Starship's 165-foot-tall (50 ...

Russian engineers assessing leak from Soyuz crew spacecraft

Particles of coolant leak from Russia's Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now. A Russian Soyuz crew ferry ship docked to the International Space Station spewed particles of an unknown ...

James Webb Space Telescope hailed as the greatest science breakthrough of 2022

It's been a triumphant year for the James Webb Space Telescope. From a flawless launch on Christmas Day 2021, through a perfectly executed deployment sequence, to early images that took everybody's breath away, the $10 billion space observatory has ...

Astronomers discover strange twin planets might be water worlds

Two planets found by NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope may be made mostly of water, according to new research. The two exoplanets, dubbed Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d, orbit a star located about 218 light-years away from Earth in the constellation ...

SpaceX launch from California delayed to review engine data

SpaceX has delayed the launch from California of a Falcon 9 rocket with a U.S.-French environmental monitoring satellite from Thursday to Friday, allowing more time to review the source of moisture in two of the launcher's booster engines.

Watch SpaceX launch NASA water-monitoring satellite early Friday

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday at 6:46 a.m. EST (1146 GMT; 3:46 a.m. local California time).