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Ready for the Red Planet! NASA's Mars Helicopter Aces Key Flight Tests

7 years ago from Space.com

The 4-lb. Mars Helicopter, a technology demonstration that will launch with NASA's next Red Planet rover in July 2020, aced its first-ever test flight under Red Planet conditions.

Watch 2 NASA Astronauts Take a Spacewalk Today!

7 years ago from Space.com

The first all-female spacewalk in history will no longer happen today (March 29), but you can still watch two NASA astronauts take an important spacewalk outside the International Space Station!

Starquakes Rock Alien Sun, Revealing Details of a 'Hot Saturn'

7 years ago from Space.com

NASA's TESS mission has, for the first time, detected a planet orbiting a star with visible starquakes.

ESA and NASA to team up on lunar science

7 years ago from Physorg

ESA Director of Human and Robotic Exploration, David Parker, and Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, signed a Statement of Intent to coordinate joint science research about...

Discover ESA

7 years ago from European Space Agency

Discover ESA is a colourful journey through ESA’s activities and space missions. The brochure, which is available in six languages, includes an attractive space poster

WWE: Top 5 WrestleMania moments of all time

7 years ago from UPI

WWE's WrestleMania is not only filled with spectacular matches, but also emotional and triumphant moments. Here are UPI's Top 5 WrestleMania moments of all time.

Watch live: Astronauts swap out batteries during spacewalk

7 years ago from UPI

Astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch will venture outside the ISS for a 6.5-hour spacewalk to replace batteries, part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the station's power system.

Trump, Moon to convene for summit in Washington

7 years ago from UPI

South Korea's presidential Blue House said Friday President Moon Jae-in is to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Rocket Lab Launches Experimental Satellite for DARPA

7 years ago from Space.com

Rocket Lab's Electron booster launched from New Zealand today (March 28), delivering to orbit an experimental satellite for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Russian space pioneer Valery Bykovsky dies aged 84

Valery Bykovsky, who holds the record for the longest solo spaceflight in history, dies aged 84.

Indian satellite destruction creates debris field of 'space junk'

7 years ago from Physorg

India's destruction of a satellite with a missile created hundreds of pieces of "space junk," a potentially dangerous situation that established space powers have tried to avoid for years.

Saturn's rings coat tiny moons

7 years ago from Science Daily

New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn's rings. The closest-ever flybys by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal that the surfaces of these unusual moons are...

Rare Disintegrating Asteroid Spied by Hubble Telescope (Photo)

7 years ago from Space.com

Two long, narrow tails of material are streaming from a 2.5-mile-wide (4 kilometers) rock in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, a new study reports.

Deep groundwater may generate surface streams on Mars

7 years ago from Science Daily

New research suggests that deep groundwater could still be active on Mars and could originate surface streams in some near-equatorial areas on Mars.

NASA's Mars Helicopter Completes Flight Tests

The first helicopter to fly on Mars had its first flight on Earth.

Watch: Cardinals go back-to-back with Wong, Bader bombs versus Brewers

7 years ago from UPI

The St. Louis Cardinals are the first team with back-to-back homers in 2019, with Kolten Wong and Harrison Bader performing the feat Thursday against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Trilobites: A Crew of Mini-Moons That Sculpts Saturn’s Rings

7 years ago from NY Times Science

Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft are helping to explain how Atlas, Daphnis, Epimetheus, Pan and Pandora are distinctive among Saturn’s many satellites.

Starquakes Rock Alien Sun, Revealing Details of a 'Hot Saturn'

7 years ago from Live Science

NASA's TESS mission has, for the first time, detected a planet orbiting a star with visible starquakes.

New close-ups of the mini-moons in Saturn's rings

7 years ago from Physorg

Nestled between Saturn's rings are a collection of mini-moons that NASA's Cassini spacecraft skimmed past in 2017.

Weirdly Colored Saturn Moons Linked to Ring Features, NASA's Cassini Revealed

7 years ago from Space.com

The bizarre shapes and diverse colors seen in some of Saturn's moons may now be explained, with the help of data taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before it plunged to...

Saturn’s rings paint some of its moons shades of blue and red

7 years ago from Sciencenews.org

Moons located among Saturn’s inner rings are different colors depending on their distance from the planet, suggesting they’re picking up ring debris.

NASA's Cassini Finds Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons

NASA's Cassini spacecraft gave scientists the closest-ever look at the mini-moons near Saturn - and new data that helps explain their weird shape and what they're made of.

New evidence of deep groundwater on Mars

7 years ago from Physorg

In mid-2018, researchers supported by the Italian Space Agency detected the presence of a deep-water lake on Mars under its south polar ice caps. Now, researchers at the USC Arid...

NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Joaninha maintaining an eye

7 years ago from Physorg

Tropical Cyclone Joaninha is not yet ready to close its eye and weaken. Visible imagery from NASA's Terra satellite showed Tropical Cyclone Joaninha maintaining an eye thanks to low wind...

Hubble watches spun-up asteroid coming apart

7 years ago from Physorg

A small asteroid has been caught in the process of spinning so fast it's throwing off material, according to new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.

Watch: Artist building cheese wall at U.S.-Mexico border

7 years ago from UPI

A Los Angeles artist is building his border wall on the Mexican border -- but he's making it out of cheese to "Make American Grate Again."

India Says Its Anti-Satellite Weapon Test Created Minimal Space Debris. Is That True?

7 years ago from Space.com

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the nation completed a successful test-fire of its first anti-satellite launch missile, dubbed "Mission Shakti," on Wednesday (March 27).

Toni Collette, Jesse Plemons to star in 'Thinking of Ending Things'

7 years ago from UPI

Writer-director Charlie Kaufman has begun principal photography on his new film, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," Netflix said.