Astronauts on the space station just flew SpaceX's Crew Dragon to a new port - a first for the spaceship
The Crew Dragon Resilience undocks from the forward port of the International Space Station on April 5, 2021. NASA TV SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship moved on Monday to make way for the next Dragon capsule. The...
NASA's Mars helicopter survived its first night alone on the red planet after the Perseverance rover set it free
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, photographed on Mars by the Perseverance rover on April 4, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has survived its first cold night alone on the red planet. Now that...
An astronomer's colorful animation shows how Saturn's disappearing rings act like a 'mini solar system'
Saturn's rings, imaged based on radio data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Green indicates regions with particles smaller than 5 centimeters; purple is where no particles are that small. The white area is so dense...
An astronomer's animation shows how Earth and the moon both orbit a spot 3,000 miles from the true center of the planet
The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured a view of the moon as it passed between the spacecraft and Earth. DSCOVR EPIC team Earth and the moon both orbit an invisible point just below the planet's...
SpaceX's new Starship rocket prototype exploded at the end of a test flight yet again, sending debris flying
A screen shot of SpaceX's landing pad in Texas during the SN11 prototype flight on March 30, 2021. Arrows indicate flying debris. NASA Spaceflight SpaceX launched a prototype of its Starship rocket 6 miles above...
NASA's Mars helicopter has made its first appearance on the red planet. It's set to fly within weeks.
An artist's concept of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying through the Martian skies. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has revealed the helicopter attached to its belly, called Ingenuity. The...
A magnetic spacecraft that can attract dead satellites has entered orbit - a test in a new effort to clean up space junk
An illustration shows Astroscale's ELSA-d spacecraft pulling in its space-debris companion using magnets. Astroscale Japanese company Astroscale launched a magnetic satellite as a demo of a space junk clean-up...
SpaceX hopes to launch and land a new prototype of its Starship mega-rocket this week. The last 3 exploded.
Elon Musk (right) needs Starships to stop exploding (left) to realize his dream of a fully reusable mega-rocket. SPadre.com ; Win McNamee/Getty Images SpaceX is preparing to launch its new Starship prototype at its...
NASA has successfully fired its new moon rocket's 4 core engines - a key step towards a launch later this year
The SLS core stage engines fire on the test stand, March 18, 2021. NASA TV NASA fired the core stage of its new moon rocket for eight minutes on Thursday, simulating a launch. Now NASA is poised to ship that stage...
NASA's Perseverance rover is preparing to drop a helicopter from its belly and watch it fly on Mars
An artist's illustration shows NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is about to drop a helicopter from its belly and film its flights. Ingenuity...
Watch NASA test-fire the world's most powerful rocket stage on Thursday - a critical step towards the next moon mission
The core stage of NASA's Space Launch System fires its engines for a hot fire test on January 16, 2021, at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. NASA/Robert Markowitz NASA plans to fire the engines on the core...
An early SpaceX engineer crawled inside an imploding rocket on a jet in mid-air to save the company
Elon Musk. Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images SpaceX almost ran out of money in 2008, and had one last chance to launch a rocket to orbit. Its one remaining rocket began to implode while flying onboard a C-17 jet,...
California healthcare workers didn't know they were fighting a new variant this winter. Their trauma should be a warning.
Chaplain Kevin Deegan places his hand on the head of a COVID-19 patient while praying for him at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles on January 9, 2021. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo Southern California's...
NASA's Perseverance rover just went for its first drive on Mars, then spotted its own wheel tracks in the dirt
NASA’s Perseverance rover captures its own wheel tracks during its first drive on Mars, on March 4, 2021. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance rover drove on Mars for the first time on Thursday. The rover snapped...
A cyberpunk scene at SpaceX's launch facilities: A robot dog inspected the wreckage of a Starship rocket prototype
SPadre.com SpaceX fans captured footage of a cyberpunk scene at the company's Texas launch facilities on Thursday. A robotic dog wandered the wreckage of a Starship prototype that exploded after its landing. The...
Minutes after a seemingly successful landing, SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded on the pad
The SN10 reignites its three Raptor engines to upright itself and land in this screengrab from a SpaceX livestream. SpaceX SpaceX flew a Starship rocket prototype six miles above Texas on Wednesday, landing it in...
SpaceX once left its rocket engineers on an island without food, leading them to mutiny, according to a new book
Elon Musk. Susan Walsh/AP SpaceX's first engineers lived on a remote Pacific island to prepare the company's earliest rocket for launch. In the first year that SpaceX was on the island, food shipments sometimes...
NASA just unveiled a high-def, 360-degree panorama of Mars from the Perseverance rover. It's made from 142 photos.
Part of a 360-degree panorama of Mars, stitched together from images captured by NASA's Perseverance rover. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has already beamed back thousands of stunning...
Stunning photos from NASA's new Mars rover reveal 200-foot cliffs, mysterious rocks, and a perfect touchdown
An artist's illustration shows NASA's Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's new Mars rover, Perseverance, has already beamed back thousands of stunning photos. Sports cameras...