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In preparation for the 2021 Asteroid Redirect Mission, this prototype of a robotic capture module system uses a mock asteroid boulder as a test at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA to launch the robotic portion of its Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) in 2021. This will be the first mission to visit and […]

Elon Musk showed childlike joy during the first historic landing of a Falcon 9 reusable rocket booster. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk typically displays such an incredibly calm demeanor that it’s hard to imagine him getting excited about anything. But in a newly released video, Musk makes an uncharacteristic display of emotion, ranging from dread to unbridled […]

The holidays might be time for joy or reflection on Earth, but the same is true for space. See how astronauts mark the holidays away from family and friends for months at a time in this Space.com gallery. HERE: NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock sends a Fourth of July message to the United States and poses […]

Satellites for Brazilian and Japanese customers lift off with Ariane 5 for a dual-passenger mission successfully performed on December 21. Flight VA234. Star One D1 and JCSAT-15 WASHINGTON — European launch provider Arianespace completed its 11th and final launch of the year Dec. 21, putting satellites for Asia’s and South America’s largest regional operators on […]

Luke Skywalker, the hero of the original “Star Wars” trilogy, trains in the ways of the Force with his master, Yoda. In the “Star Wars” universe, a mystical power known as the Force drives the battles between Jedi knights and their dark counterparts, the Sith. Ahead of the release of “Rogue One: A Star Wars […]

One of two Standard Missile-6 Dual 1 missiles launches from the destroyer USS John Paul Jones during a missile defense test against a medium-range ballistic missile target on Dec. 14, 2016, conducted off the coast of Hawaii. The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy have launched their latest missile defense test in the Pacific […]

The stars of the science-fiction movie “Passengers ” got to talk to a real NASA scientist and ask some big questions about space.  Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Sheen talked with Tiffany Kataria, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studies the atmospheres of planets around other stars, during a press junket […]

This image by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a network of cracks that may be growing into a larger feature dubbed a “spider.” A NASA Mars probe may have snapped rare baby photos of the Red Planet’s bizarre “spiders.” The images, captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), show small, erosion-carved cracks in Red Planet […]