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NASA’s AIM spacecraft goes silent after a 15-year run studying the Earth’s oldest clouds
NASA launched AIM in 2007 to study noctilucent or night-shining clouds.
UK Space Agency funds Rolls-Royce's bid to put a nuclear reactor on the moon
Rolls-Royce is creating a nuclear micro-reactor to power future moon bases.
MIT’s new modular lunar robot has ‘worms’ for arms
MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The “mix-and-match” system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various “species” of robots resembling spiders, elephants, goats and oxen. The team won the Best Paper Award last week at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Aerospace Conference.
This is the spacesuit NASA's Artemis astronauts will wear on the Moon
NASA and Axiom have revealed the spacesuit Artemis astronauts will use on the Moon.
NASA picks Axiom Space for its third astronaut mission to the ISS
NASA has chosen Axiom Space's proposal yet again for the third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station.
The JWST captures a rare star about to go nova
The capture you see above shows WR 124, a star located in the constellation Sagittarius, approximately 15,000 light years away from Earth.
SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission safely returns to Earth after five months in space
SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission safely splashed down on Saturday evening, bringing home four astronauts.
Curiosity rover captures our first clear view of Martian sunbeams
On February 2nd, Curiosity captured a rare sight on camera, making it the first time we've seen crepuscular rays (or "sun rays") this clearly from the Martian surface.
NASA's DART spacecraft took out over 1,000 tons of rock from its target asteroid
Scientists confirm that DART's impact method can be used to protect Earth from planet-killing asteroids.
Russia targets February 24th for Soyuz MS-22 crew rescue launch
Russia's long-awaited MS-23 mission will launch late next week. The mission will attempt to bring back the two cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut whose Soyuz return craft sprang a leak late last year.
Hitting the Books: NASA's Class 8 broke color barriers and glass ceilings alike
In The New Guys, author Meredith Bagby follows the exploits of NASA's Astronaut class of 1978 — "Class 8," America's first women, African Americans, Asian American, and gay person to fly to space.
A second Russian spacecraft docked at the ISS is leaking coolant
On Saturday morning, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency disclosed on Telegram that a Progress cargo ship docked with the ISS had lost cabin pressure.
NASA picks Blue Origin's New Glenn to fly a science mission to Mars
NASA has selected Blue Origin's New Glenn, the company's heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle that has yet to go on its first launch, for a science mission to Mars.
NASA satellite will use radar to map Earth's crust in extreme detail
NASA and India's space agency are teaming up to launch a satellite that uses radar to study even the tiniest details of Earth's crust.
NASA and DARPA will test nuclear thermal engines for crewed missions to Mars
Nuclear thermal rocket engines could help get astronauts to Mars more quickly than by chemical propulsion methods. NASA and DARPA are working on nuclear thermal propulsion tech that they hope to test as soon as 2027.
The Webb Telescope's first confirmed exoplanet is 99 percent the diameter of Earth
We peered 41 light years into the cosmos and found a planet in the Octans constellation with a diameter 99 percent that of Earth itself — say hello to LHS 475 b.
NASA is funding ideas for a Titan seaplane and faster deep space travel
NASA is backing studies into new technologies that include a seaplane that could explore Titan.
NASA's 38-year-old science satellite falls safely to Earth
NASA's dead 38-year-old satellite has plunged safely through the atmosphere — but you might not see many repeats in the future.
A dead NASA satellite is returning to Earth after 38 years in space
After nearly four decades in space, NASA’s retried Earth Radiation Budget Satellite is about to fall from the sky.
Walter Cunningham, last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut, dies at 90
Walter Cunningham, last surviving astronaut of the Apollo 7 mission, died on Tuesday at 90.