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Boeing Starliner rolls to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of May launch
1 of 3 | Boeing rolls out its "Starliner" spacecraft from the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center…
NASA chooses 4 crew members for next Mars mission simulation
NASA's Human Exploration Research Analog facility, or HERA, is a habitat at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston designed to simulate the…
NOAA says fourth global coral bleaching event underway
1 of 2 | Coral reefs, such as the one pictured here off Boynton Beach, Fla., are undergoing a mass bleaching event on a global scale,…
‘Brightest of All Time’ gamma-ray burst caused by exploding star, say scientists
Scientists at Northwestern University said Friday they had confirmed that the cause of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed (the circled…
NASA’s planet-hunter TESS temporarily shuts off
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which has been searching for planets like Earth outside of the solar system, unexpectedly went…
SpaceX launches military weather satellite into orbit
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket creates a vapor cone as it goes supersonic during the launch of the Transporter 2 payload from Complex 40 at the Cape…
From Florida, ULA Delta IV Heavy lifts off for final time
1 of 2 | The United Launch Alliance oversaw the final deployment of the Delta IV Heavy as it lifted a National Reconnaissance Office…
Total solar eclipse to pass through 15 U.S. states in rare celestial event
1 of 5 | The VA Hospital announces parking restrictions on the day the solar eclipse passes over the city in Poplar Bluff, Missouri…
Trillions of cicadas to swarm U.S.; first double-brood emergence in 200 years
Cicada Broods 13 and 19 are expected to emerge together for the first time in over 200 years. Thomas Jefferson was president the last time these…
Multinational team safely returns to Earth from the International Space Station
1 of 3 | NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara (C) is shown after the landing of a Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft Saturday in Kazakhstan. She and…