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Solar eclipse 2024: Live updates

8 hours 13 min ago
Stay up-to-date with the latest news on the upcoming solar eclipses, including the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024.
Categories: Astronomy

Boeing drone dressed as 'Star Wars' X-wing lands at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

8 hours 40 min ago
A Boeing CV2 Cargo Air Vehicle dressed like a "Star Wars" X-wing fighter has been donated to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
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Boeing's Starliner is ready to fly astronauts after years of delay. Here's what took so long.

9 hours 41 min ago
Boeing's Starliner is finally ready to fly astronauts, after several years of delay. The capsule's designers put the extra time to good use, NASA and Boeing representatives say.
Categories: Astronomy

Curious asteroid Selam, spotted by NASA's Lucy spacecraft, is a cosmic toddler

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 4:00pm
NASA's Lucy spacecraft serendipitously found a small moonlet orbiting the mission's asteroid target Dinkinesh. Scientists named it Selam, and have now learned that Selam is a cosmic toddler.
Categories: Astronomy

Astronauts on the moon could stay fit by running in a Wheel of Death

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 3:18pm
Scientists suggest lunar astronauts can stay fit by running sideways within a Wheel of Death.
Categories: Astronomy

Watch live: China launching Chang'e 6 mission to far side of the moon early May 3 (video)

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 2:46pm
China's Chang'e 6 sample return mission to the moon's far side is scheduled to launch early Friday morning (May 3), and you can watch the action live.
Categories: Astronomy

Watch ULA assemble Atlas V rocket ahead of Boeing Starliner astronaut test flight (video)

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 1:00pm
United Launch Alliance's new video highlight's how the Atlas V launch vehicle for Boeing's Starliner was stacked and mated to the spacecraft.
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NASA's Hubble Telescope is back in action — but its TESS exoplanet hunter may now be in trouble

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 12:37pm
Both the Hubble Telescope and TESS exoplanet hunter went into safe mode on April 23. Hubble is back on, but TESS remains off.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA selects Rocket Lab for back-to-back climate change research launches

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 12:00pm
NASA's PREFIRE mission will deploy a pair of satellites from twin launches aboard Rocket Lab's Electron rockets that will contribute to climate change studies in the Arctic and Antarctica.
Categories: Astronomy

SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites in 2nd half of spaceflight doubleheader (video)

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:30am
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (May 2), on the second half of a planned spaceflight doubleheader.
Categories: Astronomy

Some planets 'death spiral' into their stars and scientists may now know why

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:00am
WASP-12b is a planet on a date with a fiery destiny, doomed to plunge into its sun-like star. Scientists may finally know why some hot Jupiters eventually death spiral into their stars.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA inspector general finds Orion heat shield issues 'pose significant risks' to Artemis 2 crew safety

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 10:36am
NASA's inspector general writes that the Artemis 1 test flight of the Orion spacecraft revealed anomalies that "pose significant risks to the safety of the crew."
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Restored Atlas rocket erected on display as Mercury astronaut's ride to orbit

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 10:30am
Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA's last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 rocket is standing again. A replica is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force.
Categories: Astronomy

NASA picks 9 companies to develop Mars 'commercial services' ideas

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 10:00am
NASA has selected nine companies to develop concepts that could agency science missions to Mars down the road.
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Somehow, Star Wars has returned to Fortnite for May the 4th (video)

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 7:16am
Star Wars and Fortnite's relationship has been fruitful over the years, but 2024's offerings could be the best yet. This is where the fun begins!
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Here's what to expect during Boeing Starliner's 1st astronaut test flight on May 6

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 6:00am
Boeing Starliner will launch its 1st mission to the ISS with NASA astronauts on May 6. Here are the milestones to watch for, from launch to docking to landing.
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Watch SpaceX's Crew-8 astronauts move their Dragon at the ISS May 2 to make way for Boeing's Starliner

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 6:00pm
The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-8 mission will move their Dragon capsule to a different port at the ISS on Thursday morning (May 2), and you can watch it live.
Categories: Astronomy

'It almost feels unreal': NASA astronauts excited for 1st crewed Boeing Starliner launch May 6

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 4:00pm
Two experienced NASA astronauts will take Boeing Starliner on its first human excursion on May 6. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams bring test pilot and spaceflight experience to bear.
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NASA prepares for intense sun storms on Mars during 'solar maximum'

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 3:00pm
As the sun reaches solar maximum, Mars spacecraft are preparing to study the effects of increased radiation bombardment and how solar storms may impact future crewed missions to the Red Planet.
Categories: Astronomy

James Webb Space Telescope forecasts clouds of melted rock on this blisteringly hot exoplanet

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 2:30pm
The JWST has performed a weather report for a distant hot Jupiter exoplanet, finding winds three times as fast as a jet fighter, clouds made of rock and temperatures hot enough to melt lead.
Categories: Astronomy