Space

In this April 30, 2021, file image taken by the Mars Perseverance rover and made available by NASA, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, right, flies over the surface of the planet.

Science

NASA is looking for people to test out its Mars simulator for a year

12:16am February 21, 2024

by Ayana Archie

The agency is accepting applicants for the second cohort of its Mars simulator mission. Participants will live and work from a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot facility at NASA's Houston space center.

This illustration provided by the European Southern Observatory this month depicts the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole.

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Scientists have found a black hole so large it eats the equivalent of one sun per day

8:16pm February 20, 2024

by Joe Hernandez

With a mass 17 billion times larger than our sun, this black hole is the fastest-growing black hole ever recorded, Australian National University said.

The ERS-2 was launched in 1995 and retired in 2011. It's falling back to Earth this week.

Science

Watch out, a dead satellite is falling back to Earth

3:17pm February 20, 2024

by James Doubek

There's a one in a billion chance it could hit somebody on the head. Europe's space agency doesn't know exactly when or where it will land.

Delta announces special mid-day flight on April 8 to follow solar eclipse's path

6:56am February 20, 2024

On the flight from Austin, Texas, to Detroit, the airline is using a plane with bigger windows to make it easier to see the eclipse.

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Feb. 15, 2024. The rocket is carrying Intuitive Machines' lunar lander on its way to the moon, with a planned Feb. 22 touchdown.

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In latest lunar landing trial, Intuitive Machines hopes to get U.S. back to the moon

5:01am February 19, 2024

by Emma Bowman

If successful, the uncrewed spacecraft would be the first U.S. lunar landing in more than 50 years, and would mean one giant leap for the commercial space sector.

This image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/Takara Tomy/Sony Group Corporation/Doshisha University shows an image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of a robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, on the moon.

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Japan's space agency says it may now have clues about the origins of the moon

5:03am February 15, 2024

by The Associated Press

An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing lunar rocks, an achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said

What space stations of the future could look like

5:12am February 14, 2024

by Kaity Kline

NASA officials plan to take down the International Space Station at the end of 2030. They are collaborating with private industries, which will develop its replacement.

Sean Crimmins, a senior in engineering at the University of Nebraska, loads the robotic arm into its case on Aug. 11 before a shake test.

A tiny robot on the space station will simulate remote-controlled surgery up there

2:30pm February 10, 2024

by Juliana Kim

A robotic assistant recently arrived at the International Space Station to perform a simulated surgery that will be controlled by a surgeon 250 miles away on Earth.

In this image from video provided by NASA, the 11 International Space Station crew members representing Expedition 70 (red shirts) and Axiom Space 3 (dark blue suits) crews gather for a farewell ceremony calling down to mission controllers on Earth on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024.

National

Four European astronauts return to Earth after Axiom Space's Ax-3 commercial mission

8:33am February 09, 2024

by Brendan Byrne

The crew of four commercial astronauts flew to the International Space Station last month on a SpaceX rocket and capsule. Their time in space was extended several days due to poor weather off Florida.

The Earth will not be destroyed when an asteroid whizzes past on Friday

7:17am February 02, 2024

The space rock is believed to be about the size of the Empire State Building. It is supposed to pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth. For comparison the moon is about 240,000 miles away.

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