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NASA's TESS telescope spots two new planets light years away five months after launch
A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, officials said on Thursday. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, better known as TESS, made an early discovery of ...
Tossed net snares space junk in orbit-cleanup experiment; next test to use harpoon
A tossed net has managed to capture space junk in a demonstration of ways to clean up debris in orbit. In the British-led experiment, a big net was cast from a mini satellite Sunday. The net successfully wrapped around its target, an inflated structure that ...
Cosmonaut shows space station hole to calm public as Moscow alleges sabotage
A cosmonaut on Monday showed off a hole in the International Space Station that caused loss of oxygen after Russia suggested the leak could have been caused deliberately. Cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev posted a video on social media where he shows the small sealed hole in ...
Russia's contract to ferry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz rockets will end in April, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told reporters on Friday. The expiration piles additional pressure on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to restore its capability to shuttle ...
'First Man,' a film about U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, accused of being unpatriotic
Neil Armstrong's sons and the director of a new biopic on the space hero are hitting back against criticism that the film is unpatriotic because of the lack of a flag-planting scene. In a statement issued Friday, Rick and Mark Armstrong said "First Man," starring ...
Astronauts scrambled Thursday to patch a tiny hole in a Russian capsule that was allowing air to leak from the International Space Station. NASA and Russian space officials stressed the six astronauts were in no danger. The leak was detected Wednesday night — possibly from a ...
NASA's Pluto explorer spots next destination billion miles beyond
A NASA spacecraft that explored Pluto has spotted its next target on the outskirts of our solar system. NASA this week revealed pictures taken by New Horizons earlier this month of a tiny icy world known as Ultima Thule (THOO-lee). New Horizons is aiming for ...
NASA spacecraft approaches Bennu asteroid, snaps first photo
Two years after launching from Florida, a NASA spacecraft is closing in on an ancient asteroid, Bennu, for a sample of space dust that could reveal clues to the start of life in the solar system. The spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, has even snapped its first, blurry ...
Newly confirmed water on moon has NASA chief excited about prospects for humans' return
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has a vision for "sustainable" human exploration of the moon, and he cites the newly confirmed ice on the lunar surface as a key to success. "We know that there's hundreds of billions of tons of water ice on the surface ...
Trump says planned Space Force will dominate foes as NASA chief OKs idea of new service branch
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an almost $750 billion defense spending bill Monday, while vowing a new Space Force would give America dominance over rivals in China and elsewhere. "Our competitors have begun weaponizing space," Trump warned troops at Fort Drum in New York state, ...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched toward sun for closest-ever look
A NASA spacecraft rocketed toward the sun Sunday on an unprecedented quest to get closer to our star than anything ever sent before. The Parker Solar Probe will fly straight through the wispy edges of the corona, or outer solar atmosphere, that was visible during ...
NASA names crew of Boeing, SpaceX vehicles set to fly in 2019
NASA on Friday named the first nine astronauts who will fly into space on Boeing and SpaceX vehicles in 2019 — a mix of novices and veterans who are tasked with restoring America's ability to send humans into orbit. These pioneering flights to the International ...
