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Soyuz MS-02 commander Sergey Ryzhikov holds his flight’s zero-g indicator, a toy model of the Federatsiya spaceship. Russia is set to launch the second in its new line of Soyuz crewed spacecraft to the International Space Station and, at the same time, mark the first flight of its next-generation space vehicle — albeit in miniature. […]

Artist’s illustration of China’s Tiangong-2 space lab docked with a crewed Shenzhou spacecraft. A Chinese spacecraft carrying two astronauts has successfully docked with the uncrewed Tiangong-2 space lab , according to Chinese media reports. The Shenzhou-11 spacecraft linked up with Tiangong-2 at 3:24 p.m. EDT (1924 GMT) today (Oct. 18; 3:24 a.m. Oct. 19 Beijing […]

Europe is on track to achieve an epic Mars landing on Wednesday (Oct. 19) — that is, as long as its spacecraft can survive supersonic speeds, iron-melting heat and a tightly choreographed set of final maneuvers .  The landing capsule, named Schiaparelli, is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet’s surface tomorrow (Oct. 19) […]

Orbit of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the distant past. The comet that Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft orbited for more than two years was probably born in the realm of icy bodies beyond Neptune, a new study suggests. New analyses of the orbit of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko — on which Rosetta intentionally crash-landed on Sept. 30, ending the probe’s […]

An elevation model of the volcano Idunn Mons, located at Imdr Regio on Venus. PASADENA, Calif. –Volcanic activity on Venus took place in the recent past, geologically speaking, and may still be happening on the planet today. New research takes a deeper look at one recent eruption on Venus’ surface. The Idunn Mons volcano in […]

The Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft was rolled out Oct. 16, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for an Oct. 19 crew launch. A new, space-station-bound crew will lift off early Wednesday morning (Oct. 19), and Europe’s Schiaparelli landing capsule will touch down on the surface of Mars later that day — and you […]

Artist’s illustration of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object (KBO), as part of an extended mission. New Horizons is set to fly past the KBO 2014 MU69 on Jan. 1, 2019. Recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope suggests 2014 MU69 is even redder than Pluto. The tiny, faraway object that NASA’s […]

A new website, Recursor.TV, features exclusively science fiction series and movies. Independent science fiction movies and series are available in spades on a new website called Recursor.TV.   The sci-fi platform (which you can find at www.recursor.tv/ ) features curated content from independent filmmakers, and includes subgenres such as military science fiction, artificial life, augmented reality, time […]