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Teams in New Mexico gear up for Wednesday landing of Boeing Starliner capsule (photos)

To help get ready, teams held a Starliner landing dress rehearsal on May 18 at White Sands Space Harbor, a spaceport that was formerly used as a space shuttle runway and a test site for rocket research.

NASA to roll Artemis 1 moon rocket back out to pad for testing in early June

The Artemis 1 vehicle — a giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with an Orion crew capsule on top — is scheduled to return to Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in early June for another try at a crucial "wet dress rehearsal" test, ...

Space station astronauts check out Starliner crew capsule

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

NASA astronaut Bob Hines became the first person to enter a Starliner spacecraft in orbit after opening the capsule's forward hatch at 12:04 p.m. EDT (1604 GMT) Saturday. Two of his crewmates, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren and Russian cosmonaut Denis ...

NASA has early plans to send astronauts to Mars for 30 days

Artist's illustration of a crewed outpost on Mars. NASA is working to make such a vision a reality by the late 2030s.

Hubble Space Telescope spots streams of star formation flowing between galaxies

An oddly shaped, bluish-white cloud in the upper right corner is surrounded by. A newly revised NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG 31) ...

NASA's asteroid explorer Lucy spotted disappearing moon during the lunar eclipse

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which is currently on its way to asteroids orbiting the sun at the same distance as Jupiter, watched the moon disappear during the total lunar eclipse on May 15. NASA released a short black-and-white timelapse video capturing ...

Hubble identifies unusual wrinkle in expansion rate of the universe

Hubble has observed more than 40 galaxies that include pulsating stars as well as exploding stars called supernovae to measure even greater cosmic distances. Both of these phenomena help astronomers to mark astronomical distances like mile markers, which ...

China launches 3 communications test satellites to low Earth orbit (video)

China launched three new test communication satellites to low Earth orbit as the country looks to build its own version of SpaceX's Starlink broadband constellation. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi ...

Here's what happened during Boeing's 'nail-biting' spacecraft docking

New York (CNN Business) Boeing managed to dock a spacecraft at the International Space Station late last week, but it was not without several minor hangups. The mission kicked off Thursday evening with a Florida launch, and the Starliner — which is ...

Largest Marsquake Ever Recorded May Be InSight's Swan Song

Scientific American

Scientific American

On May 4, three-and-a-half years into its mission, NASA's InSight lander registered the largest "marsquake" ever detected. The magnitude 5.0 quake was nearly 10 times more powerful than the previous record-holding Red Planet temblor, reaching the upper ...