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NASA’s Mars InSight shares first images from the Red Planet

Confirmed today at 2:53 pm EST, NASA's InSight lander safely touched down on the surface of Mars. After six years…

NASA’s InSight lander prepares for Mars arrival on Monday, live stream 3pm ET (7pm UTC)

On Monday, NASA's InSight lander will complete the final phase of its journey to Mars by touching down on the…

NASA to livestream first Mars landing in six years on November 26 with InSight lander

On Monday, November 26, 2018, a Mars lander will arrive on the surface of the red planet for the first…

NASA’s famed Kepler telescope that discovered thousands of planets officially dead in space

After staring into the far reaches of our galaxy and beyond for nine years, space telescope Kepler was finally decommissioned…

Elon Musk pegs SpaceX BFR program at $5B as NASA’s rocket booster nears $5B in cost overruns

At the same time as NASA's overrun-stricken Space Launch System (SLS) continues to limp towards its continuously delayed launch debut,…

SpaceX and NASA accidentally set the stage for a new race to the Moon

Almost entirely driven by chance, SpaceX and NASA may soon find themselves in an unintentional race to return humans to…

NASA may prematurely kill long-lived Mars rover with arbitrary wake-up deadline

In a decision with no obvious empirical explanation, JPL's Opportunity Mars rover project manager John Callas was quoted in an…

NASA head hints that reusable rocket cos. like SpaceX will enable Moon return

In a series of thoroughly unexpected and impassioned introductory remarks at one of several 2018 Advisory Council meetings, NASA administrator…

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy eyed by Europe/Japan as ULA nails spectacular Delta Heavy launch

According to RussianSpaceWeb, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket is under serious consideration for launches of major European and Japanese payloads associated…

NASA spacecraft ready for voyage to the Sun on SpaceX competitor’s biggest rocket (Update)

Update: Issues with rocket and ground support hardware ran down the August 11 launch window. ULA scrubbed the attempt and…

SpaceX’s first private Mars conference is focusing on the ‘how’ of living on the red planet

Earlier this week, SpaceX kicked off an under-the-radar conference focused on the technological and strategic requirements for building and sustaining…

NASA and SpaceX probably can’t terraform Mars but that doesn’t matter

In recent weeks, a great deal of exaggerative noise has been spread wide about the supposed impossibility of making the…

Mars rover continues sleep as NASA captures new imagery of planet-engulfing dust storm

While the massive dust storm currently enveloping Mars continues to force the 14-year-old Opportunity Rover into silence, NASA's other Martian…

NASA funds study on SpaceX BFR as option for massive space telescope launch

Speaking at the Exoplanets II conference in Cambridge, UK July 6th, geophysicist and exoplanet hunter Dr. Debra Fischer briefly revealed…

Fate of NASA’s Opportunity rover unknown as Martian dust storm reaches peak strength

As NASA's Opportunity Rover continues to weather the massive dust storm engulfing a quarter part of the Red Planet, the…

NASA orbiter captures beauty of Mars as global storm forces rover hibernation

Although NASA's 14-year old Opportunity rover is currently trapped in a state of low-power hibernation in an effort to weather…

NASA’s Curiosity Rover takes valiant selfie as it weathers Mars’ huge storm

NASA's Curiosity Rover recently took a selfie at it continues to weather a massive dust storm that has enveloped a…

Massive storm on Mars downs NASA’s Opportunity Rover after 14 years on the red planet

NASA recently held a press conference about the current status of the Opportunity Rover (or Oppy, as it is fondly…

SpaceX urges White House to foster public-private partnerships in space

Earlier this year, the White House announced plans to reestablish the National Space Council (NSC), an advising body that dates back…

SpaceX and NASA deepen ties, NASA-sponsored reuse of Falcon 9 in discussion

NASA and SpaceX hosted a post-launch conference for the successful CRS-12 mission on Monday, revealing intriguing information about their plans and…