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Shuttle-flown solid rocket segments arrive in Florida for Artemis 1 SLS rocket

A solid rocket booster segment that helped launch the Hubble Space Telescope, send the space shuttle Endeavour on its maiden mission and return John Glenn to orbit has arrived back at NASA's Florida spaceport to lift off once again — this time as part of ...

Mystery solved: Odd bright patches on Saturn moon Titan are dry lake beds

A perplexing Saturn moon mystery appears to be solved at long last. Strange bright patches observed in the southern tropical regions of Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, more than a decade ago are likely the beds of dried-up hydrocarbon lakes and seas, a new ...

See Earth and Venus from Mars in amazing photos from NASA's Curiosity rover

NASA's Curiosity rover took a break from assessing ancient Martian habitability to gaze up at the Red Planet sky — where it found Earth. Through the dusty Martian atmosphere, the car-size rover spotted its home planet and Venus about 75 minutes after local ...

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Spacecraft captures 'green glow' of Mars

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(CNN) Mars may be known as the red planet, but a European spacecraft found oxygen that is causing a green glow in the planet's atmosphere, according to a new study. On Earth, this occurs in the form of auroras at the planet's poles, but this is the first time ...

NASA to allow reuse of Crew Dragon spacecraft and boosters

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WASHINGTON — NASA will allow SpaceX to reuse Crew Dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 first stages for launching them as soon as next year. A modification to the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract NASA has with SpaceX, ...

Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA. Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women. NASA recently proclaimed it will put the "first woman and next man" ...

ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet

Artist's impression of ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter detecting the green glow of oxygen in the martian atmosphere. This emission, spotted on the dayside of Mars, is similar to the night glow seen around Earth's atmosphere from space. Credit: European ...

Rocket Boosters Arrive at Kennedy Space Center for First NASA Artemis Moon Mission

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The rocket booster segments that will help power NASA's first Artemis flight test mission around the Moon arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday for launch preparations. (NASA image) ...

Solar Orbiter makes first close approach to the sun

ESA's sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter has made its first close approach to the star on June 15, getting as close as 77 million kilometers to its surface, about half the distance between the sun and Earth. In the week following this first perihelion, the point in ...

Hunting in savanna-like landscapes may have poured jet fuel on brain evolution

Ever wonder how land animals like humans evolved to become smarter than their aquatic ancestors? You can thank the ground you walk on. Northwestern University researchers recently discovered that complex landscapes—dotted with trees, bushes, ...