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Against the backdrop of a shiny blue Earth, two Expedition 51 crewmembers used their hands and a robotic arm to perform maintenance on the International Space Station, and a new video captured a stunning astronaut’s-eye view of the spacewalk. The European Space Agency recently posted the high-definition video from the Jan. 13 spacewalk. It shows […]

A lot will have to go right for SpaceX to meet its ambitious moon-mission timetable, experts say. On Monday (Feb. 27), SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced that the company plans to launch two paying customers on a weeklong trip around the moon before the end of 2018. Astronauts first saw the moon’s far […]

This balloon lifted the BLAST-Pol telescope into the upper stratosphere above Antarctica in 2012, where it measured the magnetic fields snaking through cold interstellar gas. After riding the circular Antarctic air currents for 11 days, the BLAST balloon telescope ran into a slight problem: It failed to detach from its parachute after landing, so it […]

[embedded content] If you’ve ever wanted to get your hands on the codes that run the Mars rover Curiosity , New Horizons Pluto probe or other NASA spacecraft, here’s your (latest) chance. The space agency has released its 2017-2018 software catalog to the public, allowing anyone to access NASA codes free of charge. “The software […]

The bizarre hissing and rustling noises that some fireballs make may finally have an explanation. These faint sounds are probably created when bright pulses of light from the meteors heat up certain objects on the ground below, a new study reports. These objects — for example, leaves or hair — radiate thermal energy into the nearby […]

A Soyuz spacecraft being prepared for an ISS mission last year. A NASA deal with Boeing gives the space agency access to up to five additional Soyuz seats, including three in 2019. WASHINGTON — NASA has quietly signed a contract with Boeing  for up to five additional Soyuz seats to provide for both additional U.S. crewmembers […]

Thin patties of ice called nilas churn around a thicker diamond-shaped chunk of ice in the northern Caspian Sea, as seen in this Landsat 8 image captured on Feb. 4, 2017. A diamond-shaped chunk of ice stands out against the brilliant blue of the winter Caspian Sea in a new NASA image. The image, taken […]

NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of the edges of the moon’s shadow over Patagonia, causing the planet’s surface and clouds to appear to be yellowish-brown. Last weekend, the moon crossed the face of the sun in a so-called annular solar eclipse, creating what looked like a ring of fire as the moon covered most […]

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space company is spinning off its LauncherOne rocket program into a separate firm to better position itself to serve the booming small-satellite industry, the company said Thursday (March 2). Virgin Galactic  CEO George Whitesides will hold the same role in the spin-off, called Virgin Orbit, with day-to-day […]