Over the past few weeks, there was quite a bit of excitement in the air at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where mission controllers were prepping the Perseverance rover to acquire its first sample from the Martian surface. This mission milestone would be the culmination of years of hard work by a team of over 90 dedicated scientists and engineers.
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7-Eleven launches Coca-Cola Slurpee on stratospheric 'space' flight
A 7-Eleven Slurpee has come closer to leaving the planet than any convenience store-dispensed drink has done before.
Boeing opts to haul Starliner back to hangar, delays flight indefinitely
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See the first 'Blade Runner: Black Lotus' trailer and catch a sneak peek at the opening minutes
The first trailer and a sneak peek at "Blade Runner: Black Lotus" are here and they're packed with sci-fi awesomeness.
NASA Sends a 3D Printer for Lunar Regolith and More to the ISS
One of the reasons the ISS is still alive and kicking is that it offers a unique environment for testing that is available nowhere, either on the Earth or off of it. Plenty of science experiments want to take advantage of that uniqueness. This week, a fresh crop of experiments was delivered to the ISS aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply craft. They range from 3D printers to a high school science experiment with mold, and now they each have the opportunity to make use of the ISS’s microgravity environment.
Boeing's Starliner launch, a critical test flight for NASA, delayed indefinitely as capsule heads back to factory
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft won't be flying to the International Space Station for NASA this month after all.
Solar Orbiter spacecraft sends postcard from Venus in flyby video
Sun-exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter has captured this video of a glowing crescent of Venus as it flew past the planet during a gravity-assist flyby on Monday (Aug 9).
Dragonfly Mission has Some Ambitious Science Goals to Accomplish When it Arrives at Titan
As any good project manager will tell you, goals are necessary to complete any successful project. The more audacious the goal, the more potentially successful the project will be. But bigger goals are harder to hit, leading to an increased chance of failure. So when the team behind one of NASA’s most unique missions released a list of goals this week, the space exploration world took notice. One thing is clear – Dragonfly will not lack ambition.
How far is Earth from the sun?
The distance between Earth and the sun is 1 astronomical unit. How far is that?
OSIRIS-Rex got to Know Bennu Really Well. Apparently, There’s now a 1-in-1,750 Chance That it’ll hit Earth by 2300
Asteroid Bennu is one of the two most hazardous known asteroids in our Solar System. Luckily, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft orbited Bennu for more than two years and gathered data that has allowed scientists to better understand the asteroid’s future orbit, trajectory and Earth-impact probability, and even rule out some future impact possibilities.
How Sloppily Black Holes Eat Reveals Their Mass
No one knows why quasars flicker — but astronomers are using these wavering beacons to "weigh" the black holes that power them.
Watch the ESA Council information session
NASA's Perseverance rover's first sample collection didn't go as planned due to trouble with a "unique" and unexpectedly powdery Mars rock.
Hubble Space Telescope spots 'grand design' galaxy in stunning new image
Model rocket maker Estes has unveiled its newest expert-level rocket the DARC-1, as the latest addition to their Space Corps line just in time for the last days of summer.
Two planes report 'bright green UFO' swooping through the clouds over Canada
Scanning through data fresh off the telescope, we saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos.
Watery graves: Should we be ditching big spacecraft over Earth's oceans?
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Reality splinters in new featurette for Marvel's 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' (video)
The Moon waxes from first quarter to gibbous in the evening sky, offering some of its most interesting telescopic aspects. Venus grows more insistent in the western twilight. And Jupiter and especially Saturn pose well in the southeast to south by late evening.
In 'Horizons,' a discarded global view of science shines
Boeing's Starliner capsule is still under repair as the company works to figure out what's going on with its faulty valves.
5,000 exoplanets! NASA confirms big milestone for planetary science
While flying over the Red Planet for the 11th time last week, the little helicopter caught a view of its "mothership" — NASA's Perseverance rover
Ukrainian aerospace student leaves lab to keep military tech in top shape
it’s the game's 17th free expansion.
Satellite images show fires and rubble in Mariupol after devastating Russian attack
Astronomers think they have established a new way to calculate the size of supermassive black holes: by studying the feeding patterns of these invisible giants.
