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Ready for the Red Planet! NASA's Mars Helicopter Aces Key Flight Tests
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!
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'
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
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)
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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'
Writer-director Charlie Kaufman has begun principal photography on his new film, "I'm Thinking of Ending Things," Netflix said.