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In the new documentary Good Night Oppy, the Mars Opportunity rover becomes the scrappy robot that could: an instrument platform that trundles across a rusty landscape millions of miles away, searching for alien life signs, and outlasts its own projected existence by almost 15 years. But none of the…

Divers for a History Channel documentary on World War II-era ocean wrecks have instead found a large, long-missing piece of the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded and fell into the Atlantic Ocean 73 seconds after liftoff at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Jan. 28, 1986. NASA…

NASA successfully smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday, in a test to see if current technology can divert the path of such objects that may one day threaten Earth. The football-stadium-sized asteroid did not a pose a danger, but the test was a milestone in planetary defense capabilities. CNN, Discovery and…

NASA announced today that the planned Sept. 27 launch of the Moon-bound Artemis I rocket from Cape Canaveral’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be postponed due to weather forecasts associated with Tropical Storm Ian. The postponement marks the third delay for the lunar-orbiting test flight. Postponements on…

Two Martian rovers launched in 2004, Opportunity and Spirit, were dispatched to the red planet with the intention that they would execute missions lasting 90 sols (Mars days). Fifteen Earth years and more than 5,000 Martian sols later, after a particularly harsh dust storm, contact was lost with the last of them…

UPDATE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 3: The Artemis 1 unmanned space launch, the first step in a program to return mankind to the moon, was called off once again this morning. NASA officially blamed a leaky fuel line on a propellant tank for the postponement. The ship was set to launch at 2:17 EST from the Kennedy Space Center in…

For All Mankind made it to Mars in the third season of Apple TV+’s alt-history space race series. Now the drama created by Ronald D. Moore, Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert is going even further in time and space. The series starring Joel Kinnaman and Krys Marshall has been renewed for a fourth season, it was revealed…

Elon Musk's successful takeover bid for Twitter has raised concerns about his plans for the social media platform, because of his political views. Historically those views have teetered left and right, but tend to gravitate towards libertarian. His anti-union stance as CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla has…

U.S. officials have long invoked Bruce Willis’ name in the interests of planetary security. At a 2013 Senate hearing with experts to discuss the threat that asteroids pose to Earth, noted humorist Ted Cruz quipped, “I was disappointed that Bruce Willis was not available to be a fifth witness on the panel.” Flash…

Is it merely coincidence that NASA's Perseverance landed on Mars on Thursday and the alt-history space race drama For All Mankind saw its second season debut Friday on Apple TV+? Not according to some of the series' creators and cast. "The timing isn't bad either I have to give Apple credit for making it right for our…

UPDATED, 1:57 PM: Saturday’s planned SpaceX/NASA mission launch has been scrubbed and rescheduled for a day later due to a bad weather forecast. Discovery and Science Channel now will begin their live coverage at 2 p.m. PT on Sunday. EXCLUSIVE, November 11: SpaceX and NASA are reteaming to make some more history…

Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman’s may head into space for their film in October 2021, images from the Space Shuttle Almanac reveal. On Monday the Twitter for the Space Shuttle Almanac shared a photo of spacecrafts and countries set to launch in the next three years. While the chart may seem like an assuming collage…