Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The third attempt was the lure of Boeing’s Starliner mission after launching its first crewed flight test on Wednesday, in a milestone a decade in the making. The new spacecraft’s highly anticipated, people-packed journey lifted… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The third attempt was the lure of Boeing’s Starliner mission after launching its first crewed flight test on Wednesday, in a milestone a decade in the making. The new spacecraft’s highly anticipated, people-packed journey lifted… Read More »
Scientists may have learned the history of the little ones contact binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 DinkineshNASA’s first cosmic stop Lucy spacecraft. This moonlet may have formed from its larger parent asteroid When Dinkinesh was sent spinning through space after absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. The Lucy mission, launched in 2021, is on track to explore… Read More »
Atlas 5 rocket carry astronaut Ready to explode on Monday night for the first time in sixty years Boeing’s long-delayed Starliner The crew ferry entered orbit for the first piloted test flight to the International Space Station. Running years behind schedule and more than a billion dollars over budget, Starliner joins Boeing’s SpaceX’s Crew Dragon,… Read More »
Two days after launch, a Russian Soyuz crew ferry arrived at the International Space Station on Monday and docked for a perfect docking; two short-term crew members and a NASA astronaut also began a six-month stay in orbit. Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy with Belarusian guest pilot Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson monitored… Read More »
India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft historical descent A new study reveals that this asteroid, found near the Moon’s south pole last August, kicked up almost no lunar dust as it descended, thanks to its unique engine configuration. As a result, its cameras obtained clear images of the landing zone in the critical minutes before landing, capturing images… Read More »
Written by: Joe Skipper, Steve Gorman and Joey Roulette BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starship rocket, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, completed nearly its entire test flight into space on its third attempt on Thursday, traveling farther than ever before, only to break up when it returned. Soil. During… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Engineers sent a “nudge” to the Voyager 1 probe and received a potentially encouraging response as they hoped to solve a five-month-old communications problem on the aging spacecraft. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and its… Read More »
Editor’s note: Follow CNN’s live updates SpaceX Starship launch. A SpaceX Starship rocket launched on its third test flight from the Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, reaching several milestones Thursday morning before possibly disintegrating. The deep space rocket system underwent an integrated flight test that lasted approximately one hour. At the end of the… Read More »