Crew docks at space station for 2-week commercial mission
SpaceX's Crew Dragon Grace brought a privately-financed crew of researchers to the space station for a two-week stay.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon Grace brought a privately-financed crew of researchers to the space station for a two-week stay.
The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, NASA said.
Retired astronaut Peggy Whitson, America's most experienced space flier, and rookie crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary blasted off on a privately-financed flight to the space station.
The debut images from a powerful telescope at Chile's Vera Rubin Observatory show distant galaxies and star-forming regions in spectacular detail.
A SpaceX Starship exploded at a launch site in Texas Wednesday night, bursting into a massive fireball.
A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on the Texas Gulf Coast. It's an apparent major setback for the program.
The solar flare peaked at 5:49 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory said.
Japan's second-biggest carmaker, Honda, has successfully tested an experimental reusable rocket, the company says, as it seeks to expand into the space sector.
If initial results hold up, NASA says the delayed launch of a commercial research mission to the station could come as early as Thursday.
NASA wants to evaluate recent efforts to stop a small but persistent air leak in the Russian segment of the space station.
It marks the first time Arsia Mons has been imaged on the planet's horizon, NASA said.
A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini rover.
It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets.
Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.
The northern lights — also called aurora borealis — could be visible in Alaska, Washington, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Maine, northern parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.