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Former astronaut Jon McBride uses the Space Visor headset in the Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. Visitors to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center can now take home the retired space shuttle Atlantis, the International Space Station and the entire solar system as a souvenir — all through a […]

<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”31.5″> Wedding rings on the ISS Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet brought these wedding rings along for his six-month stay at the International Space Station. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”35″> Two Soyuz Speed Over Earth Credit: ESA/NASA` Two Russian Soyuz spacecraft fly over Earth’s city lights with star trails overhead in this long-exposure photo […]

A new video from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) gives breathtaking aerial perspectives  of its many observatories, which are spread across the Chilean mountain peaks.   The first stop in the new video is the Paranal Observatory . Located 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) inland from the Chilean coast, the observatory’s various telescopes together have the […]

As NASA’s Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft begins its final eight months of operation, scientists are looking back at one of the mission’s most dramatic moments: the landing of the piggyback Huygens probe on the huge moon Titan. Huygens touched down on Titan’s frigid surface on Jan. 14, 2005, three weeks after separating from the Cassini mothership. […]

Astronaut Thomas Pesquet tries on his spacesuit for a fit check in preparation for his first spacewalk. Two Expedition 50 astronauts will head outside the International Space Station  (ISS) today for the second spacewalk this month to wrap up a power upgrade. Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency emerged […]

In 2012, the Curiosity Mars rover snapped this photograph of a plaque bearing the signatures of important U.S. officials and Mars Science Laboratory team members. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover arrived at the Red Planet in 2012, carrying a special embellishment: a plaque with signatures from the country’s top officials, including U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice […]

SpaceX hopes to resume flying its Falcon 9 rockets as early as Saturday with the launch of 10 satellites for Iridium Communications from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rockets have been grounded since a Sept. 1 launch pad explosion in Florida , the second accident for Elon Musk’s rocket company since the Falcon 9’s […]

SpaceX’s plans for launches of crewed Dragon spacecraft would require the crew to board prior to fueling, which has drawn the criticism of a NASA advisory panel. WASHINGTON — A NASA safety board recommended in its annual report that the agency closely study the safety issues associated with SpaceX’s fueling plans  for Falcon 9 commercial crew […]

A football floats in microgravity, high above the Earth. Advice from an astronaut might have helped Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers perfect his Hail Mary technique. Rodgers is the modern master of this long-distance desperation heave: He’s thrown three Hail Mary touchdown passes in the past 13 months, including one at the end of […]

[embedded content] The mobile game “Star Trek Timelines” turns one year old on Jan. 14, and its developer celebrating this weekend with a special in-game event and announcements of a new player-versus-player mode. A year ago in the game’s storyline, corresponding with when it was first released online, characters and set pieces from all across […]