It was Ingenuity’s highest flight yet, too. NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity has flown its first mile on the Red Planet. The small chopper surpassed the 1-mile (1.6 km) mark of its total flight distance on Saturday (July 24) when soared over a
Boeing and NASA are getting ready to make a second attempt at launching its Starliner astronaut taxi to the International Space Station. The uncrewed CST-100 Starliner space capsule is scheduled to launch to the space station on July 30 at 2:53 p.m. EDT (1853 GMT),
The methane is likely to have been produced recently NASA’s Curiosity rover took this selfie while inside Mars’ Gale crater on June 15, 2018, which was the 2,082nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover’s mission. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A group
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told CNBC on Monday that Sir Richard Branson’s journey to the edge of space is a “great” milestone. “We put up Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom into suborbit 60 years ago, and now we’ve come to
Ingenuity tested out some new tricks on its ninth flight. NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity has now flown nine times on the Red Planet, letting mission engineers test a host of capabilities that could pave the way for more Martian choppers. Ingenuity
Auto-navigation on Mars: ‘It’s a rover driver’s paradise.’ NASA’s Perseverance rover is picking up the pace on Mars thanks to technology that helps the robot avoid running into trouble on its otherworldly drives. That technology, called AutoNav, is a navigation system that
The agency’s newest rover is trekking across the Martian landscape using a newly enhanced auto-navigation system. NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on Mars, the Perseverance rover, is beginning an epic journey across a crater floor seeking signs of ancient life. That means the
NASA’s X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology X-plane is designed to fly faster than the speed of sound without producing sonic booms – those loud, startling noises which can be disruptive to humans and animals. Currently, commercial aircraft aren’t allowed to fly faster
The uncrewed ISS Progress 77 resupply ship is pictured approaching its docking port on the International Space Station’s Pirs docking compartment. Credits: NASA Live coverage of Russia’s Progress 78 cargo spacecraft’s launch and docking to the International Space Station will begin at
KEY POINTS Tide to Go is going to outer space. Tide detergent is partnering with NASA to keep astronauts’ spacesuits clean, even if they travel to Mars. The Procter & Gamble brand is hoping for technological breakthroughs that will help