At 4:27pm central time, the SLS rocket core stage ignited its four RS-25 engines at NASA’s Stennis Space Center. The test was to last up to eight minutes.
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The test looked, felt, and sounded incredible basked in the late-af…
Enlarge / A selfie taken by the InSight Lander.
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Today, NASA announced that it was giving up on its attempts to place a temperature sensor several meters under the Martian surface. Part of the agency’s InSight lander, the hardware was s…
NASA is promising a spectacular show of rocket power on Saturday, January 15, and you can watch it live online.
The space agency will perform the first four-engine hot fire test of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the first woman a…
Enlarge / Intense wildfires were one of the climate impacts linked to the recent string of very hot years.
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Today, NASA and NOAA are announcing that 2020 was one for the record books, tying with 2016 for the warmest year since we’…
If you’ve ever seen the International Space Station (ISS) as it passes overhead 250 miles above Earth, then you’ll probably know that its bright appearance is a result of the sun reflecting off its four pairs of solar arrays.
Hosting the first astron…
NASA is aiming to perform its first four-engine hot fire test of its almighty Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on Saturday, January 16.
Success will take the space agency a big step toward its crewless Artemis I mission to the moon just 11 months from …
Enlarge / NASA’s Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiter’s south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on February 2, 2017.
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NASA has announced that it will extend the missions for two of its interplanetary e…
As neutron stars collide, some of the debris blasts away in particle jets moving at nearly the speed of light, producing a brief burst of gamma rays. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/CI LabHuge, expensive space missions like crewed exploration or com…
NASA has announced it is extending the missions of two of its spacecraft that are exploring the solar system: The Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter and the InSight lander located on Mars. Both will continue their operations to learn more about th…
After just over a month docked at the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft is about to undock and return to Earth loaded with 5,200 pounds of experiments and other items.
Below we have all you need to know about how to wa…