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A rocket carrying carbon dioxide- and Earth-observing satellites successfully blasted off from South America late Friday.This post was originally published on this site

It’s almost time for summer’s meteor shower duet.This post was originally published on this site

NASA Artemis missions are working toward a near future where humans are an interplanetary species—lunar bases are planned by 2030 and a round trip to Mars in 2039.This post was originally published on this site

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into electricity, to work in the dark.This post was originally published on this site

The structure and function of astronauts’ arteries appear to remain stable and free of disease for as long as five years after they’ve returned from the International Space Station (ISS), according to a new study […]

Beyond plans to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since the Apollo Era, NASA and other space agencies have their sights trained on Mars, Venus, and other deep-space destinations. To accomplish this, […]

As SpaceX prepares to send up its 19th Dragon spacecraft with humans on board, the Boeing Starliner—which has only completed half of a crewed mission to date—remains in fix-it mode.This post was originally published on […]

On 15 July 2025, with the splashdown of the Dragon capsule off the coast of California, the Ignis mission ended after a 20-day space journey. ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland, during nearly 230 […]

SpaceX got to within 15 seconds of a launch from Cape Canaveral on Monday, but a “hold, hold, hold” call from among the mission control team members forced an abort. They were back for another […]

It is true that crewed missions to the moon are expensive, difficult, and dangerous. And we now have a long history going back decades of reliable, dependable, capable robotic exploration, including fly-bys, orbiters, landers, and […]