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Perseverance rover confirms existence of ancient Mars lake and river delta

"Without driving anywhere, the rover was able to solve one of the big unknowns, which was that this crater was once a lake," study co-author Benjamin Weiss, a ...

Not all Mars spacecraft might need such deep cleaning, scientists find

Planetary protection is the art of trying to make sure that Earth germs don't establish a foothold on other worlds and vice versa. Since the 1980s, in the name ...

Look up! The moon and 3 planets will gather after sundown this week

Venus will pair off with a slender crescent moon, while Saturn and Jupiter will join with a waxing gibbous moon the following Thursday. Here are the specifics ...

SpaceX is adding two more Crew Dragons to its fleet

SpaceX is about to double the size of its fleet of Crew Dragon spaceships. The company is debuting a new spacecraft for a NASA launch later this month, and is ...

Crew-3 astronauts are ready and excited for 6-month SpaceX mission

Early in the morning on Oct. 30, NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron and the European Space Agency's Matthias Maurer will launch aboard ...

Meet 'Endurance': New SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule gets a name

As Endurance's first-ever crew, Chari, fellow NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron and the European Space Agency's Matthias Maurer had the honor of ...

NASA reassigns two astronauts from Boeing missions to SpaceX crew flight

NASA assigned astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada to the first two crew flights on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in 2018. Mann, a former U.S. Marine Corps ...

NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid at 15000 mph. Will it make a dent?

DART will test an asteroid defense plan called the kinetic impactor technique — essentially, shooting one or more large spacecraft into the path of an oncoming ...

Moon rocks brought to Earth by Chinese mission fill key gaps in solar system history

China's new moon-rock treasure trove may be a billion years younger than the material the Apollo program brought home decades ago, according to new research ...

Astronomy needs a new long-term approach, new paper argues

The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as seen in 2017. (Image credit: NASA/Desiree Stover). Paul M. Sutter ...