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POTSpace Launch System (SLS) the rocket’s center stage fired all four RS-25 engines on March 18 at the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The core stage includes the liquid …

WASHINGTON – A polar-orbiting weather satellite that was decommissioned nearly eight years ago has broken down, adding to the growing debris population in a key orbit. On March 18, the Space Force’s …

The daily beast NASA veterans baffled by Biden’s choice of Bill Nelson as lead agency Tom Williams / Getty President Joe Biden is nominating his longtime friend Bill Nelson to head the …

Starting projects is easy. It’s the bottom line that many of us have trouble with. We can hardly imagine completing a project after more than a decade, but seeing the impressive results …

The world’s first satellite to use magnets to collect space debris will launch tomorrow morning. The spacecraft, called ELSA-d and manufactured by the Japanese firm Astroscale, will take off from Kazakhstan aboard …

Astronomers predict that a “high-speed stream of particles” is on its way to Earth. The particles were released from a hole in the southern hemisphere of the Sun and travel at the …

NASA and SpaceX rejoin forces and sign an agreement Thursday with the aim of improving the safety of space flight. The 13-page agreement focuses on avoiding conjunction and avoiding launch collisions between …

Mars has great ingredients for dust swirls. While taking pictures of its new surroundings on the arid Martian surface, the Perseverance rover recently saw a whirlpool of dust spinning in the distance. …

Fossil of ‘real-life Loch Ness monster’ found in Antarctica Scientists have recently discovered the fossilized remains of a 70-million-year-old elasmosaurus in Antarctica, which once weighed up to 15 tons, making it one …

NASA mathematician pioneer Katherine Coleman Johnson of “Hidden Figures” fame was always at the forefront of the class. Born on August 26, 1918, in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, the iconic “human …