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Astronomers just uncovered the most detailed view yet of a massive stellar nursery, and the photos are absolutely stunning . Pictured here is the Orion A molecular cloud, a dense region filled with cosmic gas and dust that tend to block the view of all the blooming baby stars that lie within. The cloud is […]

Mars’ south pole as seen by Mars Express. Like Earth, Mars possesses north and south polar ice caps. Unlike Earth, however, the Martian versions not only contain water ice, there’s there’s a thick layer of carbon dioxide ice acting as a blanket. Frozen CO2, also known as “dry ice”, is known to wax and wane […]

<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33.5″> Expedition 50 official crew portrait Credit: NASA Expedition 50 official crew portrait with (from left) Andrei Borisenko, Shane Kimbrough, Sergey Ryzhikov, Thomas Pesquet, Peggy Whitson and Oleg Novitsky. <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33.5″> Expedition 49/50 Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko arrived at the International […]

NASA has ordered more private space taxi flights to the International Space Station using SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft (left in artist’s depiction) and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner (right). The agency has booked a total of six flights each from the companies starting in 2018. NASA has booked more astronaut flights to the International Space Station aboard private […]

NASA’s next low-cost planetary missions will attempt to unravel the mysteries of some seriously bizarre asteroids. The space agency has selected projects called Lucy and Psyche via its Discovery Program, which funds highly focused space missions to destinations throughout the solar system. The Lucy project will investigate the Trojan asteroids, which share an orbit with […]

NASA Mission to Metal Asteroid Psyche Credit: SSL/Peter Rubin The first mission to the metal world 16 Psyche will map features, structure, composition, and magnetic field, and examine a landscape unlike anything explored before. Psyche will teach us about the hidden cores of the Earth, Mars, Mercury and Venus. To source

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The lunar module at the National ir and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The year 2017 marks a major milestone in crewed spaceflight. It’s the year that Apollo 1, the first mission with people on board, was supposed to make its journey into space. While mission preparations ended with a deadly fire that killed three […]

Spaceware is now selling to the public the same Space Cup it developed for use by the astronauts on the International Space Station. Move over Tang, there is a new way to drink like the astronauts . The public can now sip their beverages, powdered orange drink or otherwise, from the same style of “Space […]

By Steve Spaleta | January 3, 2017 08:59am ET “You see things at a different scale,” says astronaut Jeff Williams, while talking about how beautiful our planet is from orbit. He spent a record 534 days in space on several missions for NASA. The 100 Best Space Photos of 2016 credit : NASA Johnson Space […]

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a routine prelaunch test on Sept. 1, 2016. A Falcon 9 should return to flight in early January 2017 if all goes according to plan, SpaceX representatives said. WASHINGTON — SpaceX plans to resume Falcon 9 launches on Jan. 8  after completing the investigation into the pad explosion that […]