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The astronauts SpaceX's Crew-2 mission talk toilet trouble in space and more, but when will they land?

According to agency officials, the crew could come home aboard their SpaceX Dragon capsule as early as Sunday (Nov. 7), if weather permits. "We don't know exactly ...

NASA shows off finished SLS moon rocket, Webb telescope

At NASA's Kennedy Space Center, reporters and photographers were granted access to the Vehicle Assembly Building Friday to view the first fully stacked Space Launch System rocket, a towering 322-foot-tall (98-meter) launcher designed to propel astronaut ...

SpaceX's Crew-2 astronauts will return to Earth Sunday as new Crew-3 launch is delayed again

NASA SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), left ...

NASA picks landing site at the moon's south pole for ice-drilling robot

NASA has set its sights on the moon's south pole in its quest for ice. This week, the space agency and the company Intuitive Machines announced Shackleton Crater landing site at the south pole of the moon for a small lander set to launch next year.

China launches sustainable development satellite SDGSAT-1 to study Earth from space

China continued its rapid pace of space launches late Thursday by sending a satellite into orbit as part of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A Long March 6 rocket, one of China's new-generation launch vehicles, lifted off from among the ...

New Perseverance rover photos from Mars show tantalizing layered rocks

These strikingly layered Mars rocks may be the Perseverance rover's next sampling target. Perseverance recently snapped some nice photos of layered rocks on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, and mission team members shared two of them Thursday (Nov.

NASA wants you to become a planetary defender with the DART asteroid mission

NASA is getting ready to launch a spacecraft to test an experimental method to deflect near-Earth objects, and you can participate in the mission by testing your own planetary defense know-how. The space agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) ...

NASA aims to bring station crew home Monday, before replacements launch

NASA and SpaceX decided Friday to bring four space station astronauts back to Earth Monday to close out a 199-day mission, pressing ahead with re-entry and splashdown two days before the planned launch of their replacements Wednesday aboard another Crew ...

NASA, Intuitive Machines announce landing site location for lunar drill

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In late 2022, NASA will send an ice-mining experiment attached to a robotic lander to the lunar South Pole on a ridge not far from Shackleton crater—a location engineers and scientists have assessed for months. NASA and Intuitive Machines, ...

The Taurid meteor shower of 2021 is peaking now. Here's what to expect.

For the next week or so, if you happen to be outside during the overnight hours and happen to catch a glimpse of a bright "shooting star" with a yellow-orange or ruddy hue you might very well have just caught sight of a Taurid meteor.