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Boeing's Starliner is 'go' for crucial May 19 launch to the space station

NASA officials framed the completion of OFT-2 as crucial to launching more crewed missions to the space station in the near future. The agency is seeking to expand the number of astronauts on board the ISS at a time to boost the science potential of the ...

SpaceX's Crew-3 astronauts dish on their action-packed 6 months in orbit

From left to right, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer, and NASA astronauts ...

Sagittarius A*: The Milky Way's supermassive black hole

Sagittarius A*, often abbreviated to Sgr A* and pronounced "Sagittarius A star", is a supermassive black hole located at the center of our spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* is mostly dormant and only occasionally absorbs gas or dust, ...

Hubble Space Telescope spots star that survived violent explosion of neighbor

When a massive star reaches the end of its life, it explodes in a brilliant burst of light, also known as a supernova. This bright explosion can briefly outshine entire galaxies, which is how the star's surviving partner remained hidden from view — until ...

DARPA is exploring ways to build things in space

The NOM4D program — short for "Novel Orbital Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and Mass Efficient Design" — will test materials science, manufacturing and design technologies that could be used off Earth someday, DARPA officials said. (The initial phases ...

Water may have been on Mars much more recently than scientists thought, China's rover suggests

Yang Liu, a researcher at the National Space Science Center (NSSC) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and colleagues analyzed data from three different instruments on Zhurong: the laser-induced breakdown spectrometer (MarSCoDe), the telescopic ...

Get the Terraforming Mars video game for free right now from Epic Games

The popular space board game sets up players for long-term settlement of the Red Planet. The game is set in the 2400s and envisions an era where humans are remaking (or terraforming) their surroundings to improve oxygen levels, raise the temperature and ...

Boeing clashes with key supplier ahead of Starliner spacecraft launch

(CNN Business) Boeing Co. is feuding with Aerojet Rocketdyne, a key supplier for its Starliner spacecraft, as the U.S. aerospace giant races to test launch the uncrewed astronaut capsule and mend its reputation in the space sector, people familiar with ...

China's Mars rover Zhurong is hunkering down for its 1st Red Planet winter

China's Zhurong Mars rover is adjusting to its first winter on the Red Planet while its companion orbiter continues to map the world from above. Zhurong, part of China's Tianwen-1 mission, has been operating in the vast basin of Utopia Planitia for 347 ...

China's rover makes surprising water discovery at Mars landing site

(CNN) China's Zhurong rover has found evidence suggesting that water persisted on Mars for much longer than expected. Zhurong landed in a large plain in Mars' northern hemisphere called Utopia Planitia on May ...