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Ingenuity Mars helicopter snaps amazing photos of Perseverance rover's landing gear (video)

During its most recent flight, which occurred on April 19, the 4-pound (1.8 kilograms) Ingenuity photographed the parachute and backshell that helped it and NASA's Perseverance rover land inside the Red Planet's Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021.

My DNA just launched to orbit with SpaceX's Crew-4 mission

Strapped into a SpaceX Dragon capsule, a crew of four astronauts blasted off from Earth this morning (April 27) on a mission to the International Space Station. Also on board? My DNA. This morning's launch saw SpaceX's Crew-4 mission lift off from ...

Four astronauts arrive at space station for long-term stay

Three Americans and one Italian astronaut floated into the International Space Station late Wednesday after a nearly 16-hour commute aboard a SpaceX crew capsule from a launch pad in Florida, ready for multi-month expedition performing experiments, ...

How to watch the April 2022 solar eclipse online

On April 30, a partial solar eclipse will be visible over parts of Antarctica, South America and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. While skygazers in the U.S. won't get to see the partial solar eclipse in person, they can watch a livestream of the celestial ...

Apollo 17 moonwalker hails launch of fellow geologist-astronaut Jessica Watkins

One of the last men to set foot on the moon watched Wednesday as SpaceX's Crew-4 mission for NASA blasted off to the International Space Station on a Falcon 9 rocket. Among the four Crew-4 astronauts are some who NASA is considering for a future lunar ...

Three Americans, one Italian launch on SpaceX's new "Freedom" spacecraft

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Freedom spacecraft take off from pad 39A early Wednesday to begin the Crew-4 mission. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky. Four astronauts rocketed into a clear predawn sky early Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in ...

Watch 2 Russian cosmonauts spacewalk outside the International Space Station today

Two Russian cosmonauts will spend hours spacewalking outside the International Space Station today (April 28) and you can watch them work in the void live online. Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Russia's space agency Roscosmos will take a ...

The instability at the beginning of the solar system: Does it portend an undiscovered planet?

In the late 20th century, scientists began to believe that the gas giants initially circled the sun in neat, compact, evenly-spaced orbits. Jupiter, Saturn and the others, however, have long settled into orbits that are relatively oblong, askew and spread ...

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter spots gear that helped Perseverance rover land

"NASA extended Ingenuity flight operations to perform pioneering flights such as this," said Teddy Tzanetos, Ingenuity's team lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. "Every time we're airborne, Ingenuity covers new ground and ...

Record-Breaking Jumping Robot Can Leap a 10-Story Building

Scientific American

Scientific American

"It jumps much higher than most of the rest of the jumping robots in the world do—if not all of them that I'm aware of," says Sarah Bergbreiter, a mechanical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, who was not involved in the new study but wrote an ...