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NASA has signed an $843 million contract with SpaceX to build a rocket that will be able to safely de-orbiter and decommission the International Space Station (ISS) over the next ten years.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who took off on their first flight with the crew on a Boeing Starliner, will not return home from the International Space Station (ISS) until next month. This is significantly later than their originally scheduled return date of 14 June.
NASA plans to launch an artificial star into orbit by the end of the decade to help scientists with space observations.
NASA's 47-year-old Voyager 1 space probe, which is the farthest from Earth, has resumed operations after seven months of technical problems. In November 2023, the probe began sending unreadable data, prompting NASA engineers to launch an investigation.
NASA is preparing to launch two miniature CubeSats for the PREFIRE mission, which are designed to study the Earth's poles. The first satellite was successfully launched on 25 May using a Rocket Lab Electron rocket from Mahia, New Zealand, and the second is scheduled for 1 June.
Last week, NASA announced a partnership with technology company Howe Industries to develop a new engine that could take humans to Mars in just two months, as opposed to the current nine-month journey to the Red Planet.
User @MKBHD asked on social network X if it was possible to film the solar eclipse on a smartphone and NASA representatives gave an answer to the question.
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab to develop the lunar transport vehicle (LTV) capability that Artemis astronauts will use to navigate the lunar surface, conduct scientific research during the Artemis campaign on the Moon and prepare for manned missions to Mars.
The Artemis 3 mission, scheduled for 2026, will see astronauts land on the moon for the first time in half a century and set up a mini-greenhouse there.
NASA conducted a historic experiment called DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) in which a spacecraft deliberately collided with the 170 metre wide asteroid Dimorphos. This experiment showed that a kinetic impact could deflect a potentially dangerous asteroid if it were ever on a collision course with Earth.
According to statements by Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, a future version of the Starship spacecraft, which conducted its third test flight last week, will travel to interstellar space. He announced this on his Twitter account.
Mercury was recently subjected to a massive explosion of solar plasma that erupted from the hidden backside of the Sun. This explosion probably caused invisible X-ray auroras around the rocky surface of the planet. The explosion was so powerful that it was 40 times the size of the Earth. This explosion was caused by a powerful solar flare that occurred around 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 9 March.
A large piece of used batteries from the International Space Station (ISS) left orbit and re-entered the atmosphere yesterday, Friday, after nearly three years of circling the Earth. Most of the debris probably burned up on re-entry, but there is a possibility that some fragments may have reached the Earth's surface.
Nikon is working with space agency NASA to create a special camera that will be used by astronauts during the Artemis III mission, which aims to return humans to the moon.
NASA researchers have announced the discovery of microscopic traces of water on the surface of three large asteroids: 7 Iris, 18 Melpomene and 20 Massalia. Of these, Iris and Massalia showed unmistakable signs of water in quantities similar to those previously found on the sunlit surface of Earth's moon, while previous possible discoveries of water on asteroids could have been simply hydroxyl mistaken for water.
