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Pew pew! Perseverance rover on Mars picks its own prize rocks to shoot with laser

NASA is hailing the Perseverance rover's improved ability to pick its own targets as a way of speeding up science on Mars. Without explicit direction from Earth, the Perseverance rover zapped two rock targets with ...

See 5 planets align in the night sky this month, a rare treat!

Skywatchers will be treated to a rare "planet parade" this month: All five naked-eye worlds will line up in their proper orbital order from the sun in our sky. From left to right in the southeastern predawn sky, you'll be able to spot Mercury, Venus, ...

NASA to buy 5 more astronaut missions from SpaceX

NASA plans to buy five more SpaceX crewed flights to the International Space Station. The agency announced a "sole source modification" to its contract with SpaceX, which operates the only American system currently carrying NASA astronauts to and from ...

A rare, 5-planet alignment will take over the sky this month

CNN

CNN

Beginning in the early morning hours of Friday, June 3, the five planets of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will align in planetary order.

Hubble telescope spots peculiar dwarf galaxy with really bright neighbor

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a dazzling new view of a busy star birth factory. The oddly shaped Minkowski's Object, a dwarf galaxy, glows in blue toward the bottom left of the image, while the elliptical galaxy NGC 541 shines brightly in the ...

Russian Soyuz rocket poised for launch with space station cargo freighter

The Progress supply ship is set for liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:32 a.m. EDT (0932 GMT) Friday aboard a Soyuz-2.1a rocket. Russian ground crews rolled the Soyuz booster ...

China proposes alien planet mission to hunt habitable worlds by scanning wobbling stars

A proposed Chinese mission would look for nearby potentially habitable alien worlds by launching a spacecraft to make ultraprecise measurements of how orbiting planets make a star wobble. For this mission, called the Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey ...

NASA awards contracts for next-generation space and moonsuits

Next-generation spacesuits, needed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station and by moonwalkers in the agency's Artemis program, will be provided by two companies competing for contracts valued at up to $3.5 billion through 2034, NASA officials ...

NASA partners with industry for new spacewalking, moonwalking services

Phys.Org

Phys.Org

NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit and spacewalk systems to work outside the ...

What drove the megalodon to extinction? The great white shark may have.

USA TODAY

USA TODAY

The Megalodon is known as the largest and most fearsome shark to ever roam the oceans, but an apex predator around today may be the reason why the ancient beast went extinct millions of years ago, according to a new study. Able to grow up to 60 feet ...