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Mars sample return: Could Red Planet life contaminate Earth?

The robotic return of pristine samples from the surface of Mars has been a holy grail goal of Red Planet investigators for many, many years. Over that time, strategies for returning Mars collectibles have ...

Boeing's Starliner is 'go' for crucial May 19 launch to the space station

NASA officials framed the completion of OFT-2 as crucial to launching more crewed missions to the space station in the near future. The agency is seeking to expand the number of astronauts on board the ISS at a time to boost the science potential of the ...

Behold! Milky Way's monster black hole imaged for the 1st time.

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has captured a historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. The image, which was taken in the light of submillimeter radio waves, confirms that there is a black hole in the heart of ...

1st image of supermassive black hole at the center of Milky Way galaxy revealed

"With the (Event Horizon Telescope or EHT) image, we have zoomed in a thousand times closer than these orbits, where the gravity grows a million times stronger. At this close range, the black hole accelerates matter to close to the speed of light and bends ...

DARPA is exploring ways to build things in space

The NOM4D program — short for "Novel Orbital Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass Efficient Design" — will test materials science, manufacturing and design technologies that could be used off Earth someday, DARPA officials said. (The initial phases ...

Tonga volcanic eruption was the most powerful in more than a century

The volcanic eruption on an island near Tonga in January was as powerful as the 1883 Krakatoa eruption in Indonesia, one of the deadliest and most destructive volcanic events on record. Scientists have begun to piece together ...

NASA managers clear Boeing's Starliner for second try to reach space station

NASA officials cleared Boeing's Starliner crew capsule for launch next week in a flight readiness review Wednesday, moving a step closer toward a critical unpiloted demonstration flight to attempt docking at the International Space Station and check ...

NOAA reveals first images from new weather satellite

NOAA released the first imagery from the new GOES-18 weather satellite that launched March 1 from Cape Canaveral, and confirmed the spacecraft's main camera doesn't suffer the same cooling system problem that caused degraded vision in an earlier ...

Plants have been grown in lunar soil for the 1st time ever

(CNN) In a landmark first, scientists have grown plants in lunar soil using samples collected during the Apollo missions to the moon. This is the first time plants have been sprouted and grown on Earth in soil from another celestial body.

Watch black holes and the stars that feed them dance in this mesmerizing NASA video

Other stars generate stellar winds, described by Hubble Space Telescope personnel as: "fast-flowing streams of particles that are emitted from a star." The extreme gravitational pull of a black hole allows it to slurp up some of this material.