The summer-long saga of the Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test is set to come to an end on Friday. Landing at the White Sands Space Harbor shortly after midnight on Saturday. Starliner will make its final journey without crew onboard. NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams will remain onboard the International Space Station as members of Expedition 71/72 before their return onboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft no earlier than February 2025.
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One Step Closer to Solving the Mystery of Mars’ Lost Water
Few scientists doubt that Mars was once warm and wet. The evidence for a warm, watery past keeps accumulating, and even healthy skepticism can’t dismiss it. All this evidence begs the next question: what happened to it?
NASA delays ESCAPADE Mars launch on Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket to 2025 to avoid potential cost overruns
The ESCAPADE Mars mission, previously scheduled to launch atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on Oct. 13, will now lift off in spring 2025 at the earliest.
Boeing's Starliner ready to head home to Earth today
Boeing's Starliner capsule is all packed up and ready to depart the International Space Station today (Sept. 6) at 6:04 p.m. EDT (2204 GMT).
The best 60s sci-fi movies
Aside from being the Swinging Sixties, here's why the decade was also the Sci-Fi Sixties.
'Slingshot' exclusive: Director Mikael Håfström discusses his haunting new sci-fi thriller
An exclusive interview with Swedish director Mikael Håfström about his new space thriller, "Slingshot."
An annular solar eclipse will put a 'ring of fire' above one of the most isolated spots on Earth: Easter Island
Thousands of skywatchers will gather for a view of the ringed sun from perhaps one of the most isolated and remote spots on the face of the Earth: the legendary and mystical Easter Island.
Netflix's 'Apollo 13: Survival' is a superb examination of NASA's finest hour (review)
A review of the new Netflix documentary, "Apollo 13: Survival" now streaming.
JWST Reveals Star Formation at Cosmic Noon
Understanding the star formation rate (SFR) in a galaxy is critical to understanding the galaxy itself. Some galaxies are starburst galaxies with extremely high SFRs, some are quenched or quiescent galaxies with very low SFRs, and some are in the middle. Researchers used the JWST to observe a pair of galaxies at Cosmic Noon that are just beginning to merge to see how SFRs vary in different regions of both galaxies.
'We're confident in it': Boeing Starliner's parachute team readies for Crew Flight Test landing without astronauts on Sept. 7
Boeing Starliner's parachutes will be tested once more during an uncrewed test on Sept. 7. It was originally supposed to host astronauts, but NASA changed the plan mid-mission.
Happy Star Trek Day: Paramount serves up free sample of TV shows to celebrate
A guide to Paramount's free Star Trek Day programming and special campaigns.
China to test lunar-soil bricks in space to pave the way for its planned moon base
The experiment aboard China's Tiangong space station will expose bricks made of moon-soil simulant to space's harsh conditions, helping shape the future of lunar infrastructure.
Webb Telescope Images Massive Early Galaxies, Still Finding More Than Expected
Webb Telescope data are still turning up more massive galaxies in the early universe than astronomers expect.
China's mysterious space plane returns to Earth after 268 days in orbit
China's reusable space plane has landed after spending over 8 months in orbit on a largely secret mission.
NASA's solar sail spacecraft is visible in the night sky. Here's how to see it
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) can be seen with the naked eye as it orbits Earth, and can be tracked with a helpful app.
Mars rover trials
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Rover trials in a quarry in the UK showing a four-wheeled rover, known as Codi, using its robotic arm and a powerful computer vision system to pick up sample tubes.
Debris from DART impact could reach Earth
In 2022 NASA’s DART spacecraft made history, and changed the Solar System forever, by impacting the Dimorphos asteroid and measurably shifting its orbit around the larger Didymos asteroid. In the process a plume of debris was thrown out into space.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 6 – 15
The waxing Moon steps along nightly this week, from low in the western twilight with Venus and Spica over to Antares and then the Sagittarius Teapot. Meanwhile, the recurrent nova T Corona Borealis is keeping us waiting.
First metal part 3D printed in space
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ESA’s Metal 3D Printer has produced the first metal part ever created in space.
Earth from Space: Sentinel-2 captures Sentinel-2
Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite captured this image over Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 2 September, just ahead of the Sentinel-2C launch.
