NASA's newly named associate administrator for human exploration and operations, Kathy Lueders, says that SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule "has been doing great" at the International Space Station — and that the NASA astronauts who rode it to orbit are likely to come back down to Earth in early August. Lueders was selected to become NASA's head of human spaceflight last week,...

Just hours after the official start of summer, the moon will pass directly between the Earth and the sun in a celestial alignment known as a ‘ring of fire' solar eclipse.This weekend's eclipse will begin about six hours after the June solstice, which occurs on Saturday, June 20, at 5:43 p.m. EDT (Sunday, June 21, 3:13 a.m. IST). Only people across Africa and Asia will be able to witness...

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The space entrepreneurs who planned to send passengers ballooning into the stratosphere for astronaut's-eye views of the Earth below, way back in 2013, have revived the idea for a new venture called Space Perspective. Co-CEOs Taber MacCallum and Jane Poynter unveiled their concept for a balloon-borne capsule called Spaceship Neptune today, and said that uncrewed test flights are due to begin...

When NASA's Perseverance rover lands in Mars' Jezero Crater next February, it'll be carrying a tribute to the medical community and their work to quell the coronavirus pandemic. A 3-by-5-inch aluminum plaque, showing planet Earth being supported by the ancient staff-and-serpent symbol of the medical profession, will grace the left side of the rover chassis. Matt Wallace, the...