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SpaceX launches Crew-4 astronauts to space station on a Dragon named Freedom

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX successfully launched its fourth astronaut mission to the International Space Station for NASA before dawn Wednesday, bringing the company's total crewed flight tally to seven. The new SpaceX Dragon capsule Freedom ...

NASA's moon rocket rolls back to Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs

Artemis 1, an unpiloted mission, is the first test flight of the Space Launch System, the rocket NASA designed to send astronauts back to the moon. "We've got the vehicle back in ...

VP Harris congratulates NASA astronaut on record-breaking mission (video)

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei earlier this month to congratulate him on his record-breaking space mission. Vande Hei returned to Earth on March 30 after spending 355 straight days on the International Space ...

SpaceX poised for quick turnaround between astronaut missions

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins, commander Kjell Lindgren, pilot Bob Hines, and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the tower at pad 39A, with SpaceX's Dragon Freedom spacecraft in the background. Credit: SpaceX.

SpaceX's Starlink may replace NASA's space telecoms network in the next decade

The U.S. space agency wants to focus on science and exploration and hand over all low Earth orbit services to commercial players. NASA plans to replace its workhorse space data highway with commercial services. (Image credit: NASA).

Meet the astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission for NASA

Three NASA astronauts and one from the European Space Agency (ESA) will soon head to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Crew-4 mission, which SpaceX is conducting for NASA. The crew is scheduled to launch no earlier than April 27 at 3:52 a.m. ...

Watch a bus-sized asteroid safely zoom past Earth within the moon's orbit

Anyone with a strong Internet connection can watch a bus-sized asteroid make a safe flyby of Earth today (April 26). Weather permitting, the Virtual Telescope Project plans to livestream live telescopic ...

2 giant marsquakes rock the far side of Mars

NASA's marsquake-hunting lander has detected its two largest seismic events to date — and on the far side of the planet, no less. NASA's InSight lander touched down on Mars in November 2018 carrying the most sensitive seismometer ever designed.

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission rolls off the launch pad for repairs (photos)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission has returned to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) here following incomplete "wet dress rehearsal" attempts earlier this month. During the wet dress, ...

Large Hadron Collider Seeks New Particles after Major Upgrade

Scientific American

Scientific American

"The accelerator has been off for three years," says Freya Blekman, an experimental particle physicist at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the LHC. "So there's people who have never been in the control room..., never have done shifts where data ...