China to double size of space station, touts alternative to NASA-led ISS
By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – China plans to expand its space station to six modules from three in coming years, offering astronauts from other nations an alternative platform for…
Capsule with NASA’s first asteroid sample heads for Utah touchdown
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – A NASA capsule carrying the largest soil sample ever collected from an asteroid is due to return to Earth on Sunday, expected to streak through…
US poet laureate dedicates ode to Europa for NASA mission to Jupiter’s icy moon
By Colette Luke and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limon was asked to write a poem for inscription on a NASA spacecraft headed to Jupiter‘s…
NASA UFO panel in first public meeting says better data needed
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of an independent NASA panel studying UFOs, or what the U.S. government now terms UAP for “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” said…
NASA spacecraft documents how Jupiter’s lightning resembles Earth’s
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hidden below the brownish ammonia clouds blanketing Jupiter are clouds that like on Earth are made of water. And like on Earth, lightning often…
Bezos’ Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A team led by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and…
Airplane Χ-59 Nasa with Quiet Supersonic Technology’s (QueSST)
Supersonics passenger jets Airplane Χ-59: Only two mass-produced supersonic passenger aircraft are known to perform regular flights: the Soviet Tu-144, which made its first flight on December 31, 1968, and…
NASA mulls SpaceX backup plan for crew of Russia’s leaky Soyuz ship
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA is exploring whether SpaceX‘s Crew Dragon spacecraft can potentially offer an alternative ride home for some crew members of the International Space Station…
NASA to conduct first global water survey from space
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A NASA-led international satellite mission was set for blastoff from Southern California early on Thursday on a major Earth science project to conduct…
NASA’s Orion capsule returns to Earth, capping Artemis I flight around moon
By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman (Reuters) – NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around…