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Obstacle course tests NASA astronauts' mission readiness after moon or Mars landing

As NASA gears up for the next age of crewed space exploration, scientists are testing how well astronauts will be able to perform mission-critical tasks immediately after landing. These challenges include debarking from ...

European Robotic Arm moves for first time during 250th spacewalk at space station

A new robotic arm for the International Space Station successfully made its first moves as two Russian cosmonauts conducted the 250th spacewalk to service and upgrade the outpost. Expedition 67 flight engineers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev on ...

Largest treasure trove of exocomets to date found in alien solar system

Thirty alien comets have been spotted transiting the young star Beta Pictoris, their long tails lighting up the skies of the fledgling planets forming there. The comet discovery has been made using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ...

Four astronauts arrive at space station for long-term stay

Three Americans and one Italian astronaut floated into the International Space Station late Wednesday after a nearly 16-hour commute aboard a SpaceX crew capsule from a launch pad in Florida, ready for multi-month expedition performing experiments, ...

Watch NASA astronaut Victor Glover talk life in space and more from the Smithsonian

If you've ever wondered what spending six months sealed in a space station is like, NASA astronaut Victor Glover has just what you need. Today (April 28), Glover will host a live discussion from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American ...

NASA's Psyche asteroid spacecraft passes shake-and-bake test and meets the press

NASA's Psyche asteroid probe clean room in California is seeing a lot of action these days as the spacecraft gets set for its launch in August. On top of engineers subjecting the asteroid-bound mission to "shake-and-bake" procedures, the spacecraft got ...

NASA to ground SOFIA flying observatory mission for good

Following a zero-funding allocation in the White House's 2023 federal budget request in March, NASA and its partners at the German Aerospace Center (known by its German acronym, DLR) said they have agreed to close out operations of the Stratospheric ...

China could launch an asteroid deflection test mission in 2025: report

Artist's impression of an asteroid and Earth. (Image credit: Pixabay). China is planning a kinetic asteroid defense mission no earlier than 2025 as ...

Brilliant fireball soars over Mississippi, sparking loud booms

Onlookers watched as a ball of fire streaked across southeastern skies Wednesday (April 27). Around 9:03 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) Wednesday morning, over 30 people from Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi reported looking up and seeing a fireball in the sky ...

SpaceX shooting for rocket turnaround record with next Starlink launch

With a mission Friday to deploy more Starlink internet satellites, SpaceX will try to shave nearly a week off the company's previous record for the shortest time between two launches of the same Falcon 9 booster. The Falcon 9 rocket scheduled to blast ...