First picture of NASA astronauts after historic Crew Dragon splashdown
The pair offered smiles and a thumbs-up from inside the capsule
Don’t you wish you could fly free like this beautiful space butterfly?
These are hard days for the humans of planet Earth, especially those of us who despise inequity and fascism. Wouldn’t it be nice, then, if you could flap your brilliantly…
The Very Large Telescope captures a striking cosmic butterfly nebula
The temperature in the nebula is over 10,000 degrees Celsius
Crew Dragon is undocked and on its way home from International Space Station
It should splash down in the Gulf of Mexico this afternoon
NASA reveals how Perseverance is doing as it hurtles toward Mars
A couple of issues came to light shortly after launch, with one already fixed
SpaceX’s Starship prototype makes it through static fire test
CEO Elon Musk said the spacecraft will complete a short trial flight soon
How to watch NASA astronauts return to Earth on the SpaceX Crew Dragon
The capsule with two astronauts aboard will head back to Earth on August 1
How to watch NASA launch its new Perseverance Mars rover live on Thursday
It will search for evidence of ancient life on the planet
‘Interplanetary cargo ship’ built by Airbus will bring Mars rocks to Earth
The orbiter will bring back Martian rocks gathered by NASA’s Perseverance rover
We’re going to record sound on Mars. It’ll be eerie.
Should all go as planned, NASA’s car-sized Perseverance rover will plummet through the Martian atmosphere in February 2021, reaching speeds of over 13,000 mph. After landing, NASA engineers will instruct…