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Europe’s ExoMars lander gauged out a crater 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) deep and nearly 8 feet (2.4 m) wide when it crashed into the Red Planet’s surface last week, a new photo by a NASA Mars orbiter reveals.   The lander, known as Schiaparelli, apparently deployed its parachute prematurely and didn’t fire its thrusters nearly […]

Researchers install a solid rocket motor into an AFRL Rocket Lab altitude chamber at Edwards Air Force Base in California. NEW YORK — The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Rocket Lab plays a direct and extensive role in advancing rocket propulsion technology — but you’d never see its sticker on the finished engines. Rather, the […]

Astronauts may have no trouble moving heavy objects in the weightlessness of space, but that doesn’t mean that the experience isn’t hard on their backs. Astronauts on long-duration spaceflights routinely report back pain , both during and after the flight. Now doctors think they know what’s causing this. In a new study, researchers used magnetic […]

As with everything in life, too much of a good thing can be bad — and that logic now seems to apply to alien life, too. Since Proxima Centauri b (or just Proxima b) was discovered in August , countless imaginings as to what the small, Earth-sized planet would look like up-close have captivated the media. […]

This image is an artist’s impression of the surface of the planet Proxima b, which orbits a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri — the closest star to the solar system. The entire surface of Proxima b — the possibly Earth-like planet orbiting the closest star to the sun, Proxima Centauri — may be covered […]

Saturn, Venus and Antares will line up in the sky Thursday, Oct. 27. Here, the trio is shown at 6:30 p.m. local time. About a half-hour after sunset Thursday evening (Oct. 27), look low in the southwest sky to spot a planetary/stellar lineup of two bright planets and one of the brightest and most colorful […]

STS-39 Mission Specialist Charles L. Veach monitors an AFP-675 panel on Discovery’s aft flight deck. The space shuttle was NASA’s primary option for transporting astronauts to Earth orbit between 1981 and 2011. The five shuttles that went into space flew 135 missions. Crews deployed satellites, conducted experiments and studied the Earth. A handful of the […]

Gas halos around distant galaxies are colder and more common than previously believed, a new study suggests. The finding could force astronomers to rethink some of their theories about galaxy formation. Researchers examined 19 quasars, or galaxies with very active supermassive black holes at their centers, using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) […]

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