Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. As astronauts and engineers like to say, space is tough, but that has never stopped bright minds from dreaming big. A Seattle-based company has revived NASA’s spaceplane plans, which were abandoned in 2001… Read More »
Boeing’s crew-carrying space capsule, Starliner, returned to Earth without its two-person crew just after midnight Eastern time on September 7, 2024. The remote-controlled return capped a grueling test flight to the International Space Station that left two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, months longer than planned after NASA deemed the capsule unsafe to… Read More »
Starliner has landed. Boeing’s troubled spacecraft has finally returned home, but two NASA astronauts who headed to the International Space Station in June are still in orbit. After problems with the Starliner’s propulsion system during its approach to the space station in June, NASA officials decided not to send astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Two drogue parachutes from a Boeing Starliner test article successfully deployed during a landing system reliability test above White Sands Spaceport in New Mexico on June 21, 2020. | Source: Boeing Starliner, which sets off without astronauts, will separate… Read More »
Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft — not trusted by NASA to bring its crew home safely from the International Space Station — equipped to leave Friday and a pilotless return to Earth to end a disappointing journey test flight It was damaged by helium leaks and thruster problems. The Boeing spacecraft, leaving behind Starliner commander Barry… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. On August 18, 2024, Rocket Lab delivered two spacecraft for NASA’s ESCAPADE mission to the Astrotech Space Operations Facility in Titusville, Florida, in preparation for launch this fall. | Credit: NASA/Norman Phelps The two Mars satellites that will be… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more New research suggests that rocky fragments from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally hit in 2022, could create the first man-made meteor shower, known as the Dimorphids. The space agency planned the… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. This high-resolution image of asteroid Dimorphos was created by combining the last 10 full-frame images obtained by the NASA DART probe’s Didymos Reconnaissance and Asteroid Camera for Optical Navigation (DRACO) and layering the higher-resolution images over the lower-resolution images.… Read More »
NASA is shifting two female astronauts, including the commander, to the International Space Station on SpaceX’s next crew rotation flight, freeing up two seats for the agency’s Starliner astronauts to head home next February. Rookie Crew 9 commander Zena Cardman and veteran Stephanie Wilson will stay behind when the Crew Dragon ferry ship carrying crewmate… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A gray, jagged rock in space. | Credit: NASA/JHUAPL Simply put, stray asteroids pose a threat to Earth. While there haven’t been any major catastrophes in about 65 million years, that doesn’t mean there haven’t been nail-biting moments when… Read More »