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Two space shuttle solid rocket booster frustums are loaded on a truck for California at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Dec. 6, 2016. The pieces are coming together for the towering, launch-pad-like display of NASA’s retired space shuttle Endeavour. Three large parts from two solid rocket boosters  are now on a cross country road […]

Mars One has pushed back its first mission, a lander based on the design used for NASA’s Phoenix and InSight missions, to 2022 under a revised schedule announced Dec. 7. WASHINGTON — Mars One, the project to send humans to Mars on one-way missions that has attracted public interest and professional skepticism, said Dec. 7 […]

An artist’s impression of what Proxima b, a planet orbiting the star nearest to Earth’s sun, might look like. The recent discovery of a planet around the star closest to Earth’s sun has raised hopes that life might exist around the sun’s nearest neighbor , but researchers now find that this world might frequently experience […]

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. At the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation centre, NASA has just concluded the latest year-long study into the effects of long-term isolation in space . The research is primarily focused on examining psychological and […]

In National Geographic’s “Mars” series, engineer and roboticist Robert Foucault (played by Sammi Rotibi) goes out into a Martian dust storm to repair the crew’s power supply. In the fifth episode of National Geographic’s “Mars” miniseries, the Mars colonists’ mental stamina is put to the test as the crew works through some seriously stressful situations.  […]

In “Blueprint for a Battlestar: Serious Scientific Explanations Behind Sci-Fi’s Greatest Inventions,” NASA insider Rod Pyle explores remarkable and memorable technologies from the world of science fiction. Each concept is explained and dissected to reveal the real science behind it. Some are temptingly within our reach — such as cyborgs and artificial intelligence — others […]

A NASA artist’s concept of the Restore-L spacecraft approaching a satellite for refueling. WASHINGTON — A new contract from NASA to build the agency’s Restore-L satellite servicing spacecraft  could bring Space Systems Loral that much closer to launching its own satellite servicing business. NASA awarded the contract to SSL Dec. 5 , tasking the company with […]

The Ursid meteor shower will peak in the early morning on Dec. 22, 2016, providing a shooting-star show to skywatchers up before sunrise. The Ursids produce a handful of meteors or shooting stars every hour, usually in the range of five to 10 per hour. While it’s one of the lesser showers of the year, […]

Overnight on Monday, December 12, the nearly full moon will traverse the triangular face of Taurus the Bull. Observers in Northern Mexico, the continental U.S., Southeastern Canada, Western Europe, and Northwestern Africa will also see the moon occult the bright naked eye star Aldebaran, which marks Taurus’ eye, high in the southwestern sky at 11:12 […]

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A Geminid meteor streaks between peaks of the Seven Sisters rock formation early December 14, 2010 in the Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada. The meteor display, known as the Geminid meteor shower because it appears to radiate from the constellation Gemini, is thought to be the result of debris cast off from an […]