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Northrop Grumman launches Cygnus cargo ship to space station for NASA

Northrop Grumman launched a Cygnus spacecraft filled with NASA supplies (and some tasty treats) to the International Space Station Saturday (Feb. 15) in an afternoon liftoff that had some impeccable timing. An Antares rocket (also built by Northrop ...

SpaceX Crew Dragon arrives at launch site for the 1st orbital crew flight from US soil since 2011

The spacecraft that will fly SpaceX's first-ever crewed mission has made it to Florida. A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule arrived on Florida's Space Coast on Thursday (Feb. 13), NASA officials said, completing a cross-country trek from the company's California ...

SpaceX delays launch of 60 Starlink satellites due to rocket valve checks

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX has postponed the launch of its next batch of Starlink satellites due to an issue with a valve component on the rocket's second stage. The next attempt will be on Monday (Feb. 17), the company said. The California-based ...

Earth's cousins: Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres

Scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets, including dozens of terrestrial—or rocky—worlds in the habitable zones around their parent stars. A promising approach to search for signs of life on these worlds is to probe exoplanet atmospheres for ...

NASA Awards Contract to Rocket Lab to Launch CubeSat to Moon from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia

Part of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, Launch Complex 2 is Rocket Lab's second launch site for the Electron rocket. Rocket Lab will launch NASA's Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology ...

THIS WEEK @NASA: Christina Koch Reflects on Record-Setting Mission, New Era Budget for Space Exploration

ABOVE VIDEO: A budget for a new era of space exploration, do you have what it takes to be an astronaut? And Christina Koch reflects on her record-setting mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at NASA! Bridenstine Discusses Fiscal ...

The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

"All's Quiet on Betelgeuse" –Prelude to a Realtime Supernova?

The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel

... ‌. ‌. Although it's far enough away to keep Earth safe from radiation when it goes supernova, red supergiant star Betelgeuse is about 700 times the size of our sun, with a radius roughly equivalent to the orbit of Jupiter. "It would be astounding," said Andy ...

Breakthrough Listen releases 2 petabytes of data from SETI survey of Milky Way

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative today released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy and the region around its central black hole, and it is inviting the public to search the data for signals ...

"I was just shaking"—new documents reveal details of fatal Tesla crash

Ars Technica

Ars Technica

"It really looked like I had plenty of time to go across," an anguished Florida truck driver said in an interview transcript released by the National Transportation Safety Board this week. Unfortunately, he was wrong. Richard Wood was driving a semi truck on the ...

Fossils of car-size ancient turtles found in South America

Washington Post

Washington Post

Fossils of one of the largest turtles that ever lived have been found in South America, scientists said this week. Remains of the car-size freshwater beast, called Stupendemys geographicus, were found in Colombia's Tatacoa Desert and Venezuela's Urumaco ...