Helicopter breaks record for speed and altitude on Mars
After becoming the first machine to fly in Mars' thin atmosphere, Ingenuity continues to set records on the red planet.
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After becoming the first machine to fly in Mars' thin atmosphere, Ingenuity continues to set records on the red planet.
The space rock's anticipated trajectory places it at about half the distance to the moon, so people with telescopes may be able to see it from Earth.
Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars will align on Tuesday night.
The Crew Dragon delivered a three-country, four-man crew for a six-month stay. They'll replace four other station crew members who plan to return to Earth around March 9.
The four Crew Dragon fliers will replace another crew that will be wrapping up a 154-day stay in orbit.
An issue with the Falcon 9 rocket's engine ignition system prompted the postponement.
NASA is poised to launch four fresh crew members to the station while Russia plans to launch a replacement Soyuz ferry ship
A mysterious object crashed into Texas this week, shaking neighborhoods near McAllen in the southern part of the state near its border with Mexico.
One space weather physicist said that the polar wind that swept up the plasma was moving "insanely fast" – at about 60 miles a second.
Satellite images from the NASA Earth Observatory show the scale of destruction in Turkey and Syria.
The satellite will serve the Americas, Greenland and Atlantic Ocean air and sea lanes.
The surprise bear face spans more than 1 mile across.
A habitable zone is an area just the right distance from a star so water can exist on a planet's surface and the conditions are neither too hot nor too cold for life.
Cunningham was one of three men who served on the first human test flight of the Apollo spacecraft, a mission that helped pave the way for astronauts to walk on the moon for the first time just months later.
The tidal disruption event provided astronomers with an "unprecedented view" of how a corona is formed and evolves.
