Columbus, OH

New York Post

Someone alert Elon Musk.

NASA’s Curiosity rover made a “mind-blowing” discovery on Mars — yellowish-green crystals of pure sulfur, never before seen on Earth’s mysterious red neighbor, according to scientists.

The literal ground-breaking find was made after the one-ton Curiosity drove over a pile of rocks and cracked one open while probing the deep and winding Gediz Vallis channel, believed to have been formed by water 3 billion years ago.

“I think it’s the strangest find of the whole mission and the most unexpected,” Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] in Pasadena, California, told CNN. “I have to...

NASA’s Curiosity rover makes ‘mind-blowing’ discovery on Mars

NASA recently live streamed the departure of a spaceship from the International Space Station (ISS), but it wasn’t Boeing’s Starliner, which is staying longer than expected at the orbital outpost due to technical issues. On Friday, the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm detached Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft from the...

A spaceship just left the ISS, but it wasn’t the Starliner

The Independent

The astronauts stranded on the International Space Station are still not able to come home, Nasa has said.Two astronauts went to the space station almost 50 days ago as part of a test of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. But the spacecraft was plagued by problems both before and after the launch – and since then engineers have delayed the return until they can understand what went wrong.That work is still not finished and the space agency cannot give a date for them to come back, it said on an update on Wednesday.Test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were supposed to visit...

Stranded Boeing astronauts are stuck on International Space Station, Nasa says in urgent update

Irish Star

The asteroid will reach a distance that is uncomfortably close to earth

NASA reports 100-foot asteroid zooming toward Earth at astounding speed

Two astronauts stranded in space for 49 days – 41 days longer than their planned mission – because their Boeing-build ride home is full of leaks will have to spend at least a few more weeks aboard the International Space Station, officials said Thursday. 

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were meant to spend just eight days in space following their launch aboard the Boeing Starliner — the maiden crewed voyage for the spacecraft. 

Once in space, astronauts found a series of concerning helium leaks and have been testing whether the ship can be used to return them to Earth.



Now, they’re expected...

Astronauts stuck in space for 49 days by malfunctioning Boeing spacecraft can’t return home for weeks

IFLScience

For the first year, it will remain above the USA.

NASA Will Soon Launch An Artificial Star Into Orbit Over The USA

LiveScience

Twenty doomed Starlink satellites, which were prematurely released during a botched Falcon 9 rocket launch last week, have burned up in the upper atmosphere after falling back to Earth, new data confirms. Experts are currently investigating what went wrong.

20 satellites fall from sky after catastrophic SpaceX rocket failure, triggering investigation

A vein-filled rock on Mars has caught the attention of the science team at NASA. The rock, nicknamed “Cheyava Falls,” was found by the Mars Perseverance rover, and has traits that lead scientists to think it may have harbored microscopic life from billions of years ago. Since landing...

NASA's Mars Rover Makes Stunning Discovery Hinting At Ancient Martian Life

Is it possible that one day we could make Mars like Earth? –Tyla, age 16, Mississippi. When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The plot drew me in with its depiction of the “Genesis...

Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet

Cape Canaveral, FL

UPI News

SpaceX scrubbed plans to launch a re-supply mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday morning because of unfavorable weather conditions.

SpaceX delays resupply mission to International Space Station with bad weather

New York City, NY

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Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Binary asteroids hold a wealth of secrets about the cosmos, and studying these celestial wanderers has always fascinated scientists and explorers alike. One such daring mission, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), sought to uncover these mysteries by crashing a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022. This...

New DART spacecraft images reveal more about near-Earth binary asteroids

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

There’s an awful lot of junk floating around in space, with recent estimates suggesting there could be more than 25,000 objects in orbit around the Earth right now. We don’t often get to see this junk up close to find out how a lifetime in space affects man-made objects, until now.

Here’s What A Rocket Looks Like After 15 Years Abandoned In Space

A peculiar leopard-spotted rock, found beside an ancient, dried-out river in Mars' Jezero crater, contains some tantalizing clues of ancient life, NASA said.

NASA Mars rover finds 'first compelling detection' of potential fossilized life on the Red Planet

In the barren landscape of Mars, NASA’s intrepid explorer Curiosity has stumbled upon a series of unexpected discoveries that are rewriting our understanding of the Red Planet’s geological history. From pure sulfur crystals to evidence of violent floods, these findings are painting a picture of a Mars that was once far more dynamic and water-rich than previously imagined.

Martian treasure trove! NASA’s Curiosity rover finds ‘strange, unexpected’ crystals on Mars

The launch clock isn't set yet, but the hardware is lined up for what would become the most powerful rocket to ever send humans into space during a moonbound trip the likes of which has not happened in more than 50 years. The biggest piece of the Space Launch System...

'The clock's already started': NASA counting down to most powerful human spaceflight ever

Business Insider

Two NASA astronauts have been stuck on the space station for 51 days while Boeing troubleshoots its Starliner spaceship. SpaceX is the backup option.

NASA says it can ask SpaceX to bring Boeing astronauts home if needed, as they reach 51 days on the space station

USA TODAY

Teams are now targeting Sunday for the next launch opportunity to take scientific equipment to the International Space Station for NASA.

Northrop Grumman launch to ISS for resupply mission scrubbed due to weather

Space.com

Astroscale's ADRAS-J space debris inspecting mission completed a series of fly-around maneuvers of its target space junk, capturing stunning footage of a dead rocket stage in orbit.

Space-junk scout captures amazing fly-around footage of discarded rocket in orbit (video)

NewsBreak

Rocket Lab launches 5th mission for Japanese Earth observation company, Synspective

Rocket Lab launched its ninth mission of 2024 and its 51st Electron rocket launch to date. The flight sent an Earth observing satellite to low Earth...

Rocket Lab launches 5th mission for Japanese Earth observation company, Synspective

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