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NASA extends Mars helicopter Ingenuity's high-flying mission on Red Planet

However, with the success of its first three flights, NASA has decided to extend the helicopter mission an additional 30 sols and shift it into an "operations demonstration phase" that will test additional capabilities of the craft. (One sol, or Mars day, is about 40 ...

A SpaceX Dragon will make the 1st nighttime splashdown with astronauts in 53 years and you can watch it live

Crew-1 undocks from the space station at 8:35 pm EDT (0035 GMT).

China's new space station will need 10 more launches to complete

China's core space station module is now circling Earth. The module, called Tianhe ("Harmony of the Heavens"), launched Wednesday night (April 28) atop a Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the northeastern ...

SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts' return to Earth delayed again due to weather

The Crew-1 astronauts — NASA's Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, and Japan's Soichi Noguchi — are waiting at the space station for their return home. With them are three members of the Soyuz ...

Astronauts describe thrilling ride to orbit on Falcon 9 rocket

Charlotte Observer

Spaceflight Now

When the countdown hit zero last Friday and the engines powering a previously flown Falcon 9 first stage roared to life for takeoff, the four astronauts strapped into a SpaceX Crew Dragon some 21 stories up started laughing.

SpaceX may attempt to launch its Starship SN15 rocket in Texas soon

Update for 1:45 pm ET: SpaceX is apparently not attempting a Starship SN15 test flight today and road closures were lifted near their Starbase facility. The video above is provided by NASASpaceflight.

The Planetary Society

Earth, Our Home Planet

The Planetary Society

Earth is the only planet known to support life. It offers liquid water, an oxygen-rich atmosphere, and protection from the Sun's harmful radiation. By exploring the cosmos, we learn more about Earth and how life evolved here. Asteroids occasionally impact Earth ...

SpaceX making 1st US crew splashdown in dark since Apollo 8

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX this weekend will attempt the first U.S. splashdown of returning astronauts in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot in 1968. Elon Musk's company is targeting the predawn hours of Sunday to bring back three NASA ...

NASA and SpaceX now plan to bring Crew-1 astronauts home in the predawn darkness Sunday

NASA on Friday said the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is now slated to undock from the space station at 8:35 p.m. Eastern Saturday and splash down Sunday at 2:57 a.m.. NASA's space ...

The Last Creature You'd Expect Left Mysterious Trails on the Ocean Floor

The New York Times

The New York Times

Deep-sea sponges are not known for their mobility. After all, they lack muscles, nervous systems and organs. And forget about fins or feet for traveling the Arctic seafloor. But new research suggests these ancient life-forms can and do, indeed, get around ...