As for any consensus among scientists that signs of past or present life have been seen by Perseverance, once again, don’t wait for a slam dunk observation. Depiction shows Jezero Crater — the landing locale of the Mars 2020 Perseverance
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The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), at center, is the second-largest satellite galaxy orbiting our own. This image superimposes a photograph of the SMC with one half of a model of its dark matter (right of center). Lighter colors indicate greater
The site will be located near the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport. A view of the high desert of New Mexico where Virgin Galactic will build a new astronaut training facility. (Image credit: Virgin Galactic) Virgin Galactic has acquired land for
NASA’s DC-8 airborne laboratory is inspected and secured for the night at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida. NASA’s High Ice Water Content research activity spent July 2022 flying through thunderstorms investigating ice crystal formation and how they affect the performance
It faced the quicksand-like soil in the “sink tank,” climbed the “tilt bed,” and conquered boulders and craters. NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) prototype recently endured the most realistic tests to-date of its ability to drive through the
The new module will host experiments aboard the space station. A Long March-5B Y3 rocket carrying China’s space station module Wentian blasts off from Wenchang Spacecraft on July 24, 2022. (Image credit: VCG/VCG via Getty Images) China is
Can future crews on the Red Planet dive safely into this huge canyon system? Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars composed of 102 Viking Orbiter images of this huge feature on the Red Planet. (Image credit: NASA/USGS/Viking Project) There
The tests mark important progress towards an eventual launch of the RFA One rocket. Images from Rocket Factory Augsburg’s first hot fire test of its Helix engine, Europe’s first commercial staged combustion engine. (Image credit: Rocket Factory Augsburg via Twitter) German
A Relativity Space Terran R rocket will launch an Impulse Space lander to Mars in 2024 if all goes well. Two space companies, Relativity Space and Impulse Space, have joined the private race to Mars with plans for a commercial