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It’s hard to overstate the importance of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which is only beginning its exploration of the red planet. This robot is bristling with advanced instruments that could help reveal evidence of past Martian life, but this has almost been overshadowed by a mere technology demonstration that was along …

  Hello and welcome to This Week in Space, our weekly roundup of all the space news that’s fit to print — or at least, distract you from doomscrolling. First off, May the Fourth be with you: this week we marked Star Wars Day, a nerd-culture staple. Any reason to …

Boeing has been working with NASA to explore space for decades, which is why it was so surprising to see the company’s much-lauded CST-100 Starliner crew capsule stumble on numerous occasions. After last year’s canceled test flight, NASA and Boeing confirm Starliner is ready to take another swing at the …

NASA’s Perseverance rover has captured a spectacular video of an April solar eclipse on Mars. The video clearly depicts Phobos as it eclipses the sun, as seen from the Martian surface. “You can see details in the shape of Phobos’ shadow, like ridges and bumps on the moon’s landscape,” said …

When we talk about astronomers spotting something in the far-off corners of the cosmos, it’s usually a galaxy, a star, or some other celestial object. Not this time. A team from South Africa has discovered an ultra-powerful radio-wave laser, a phenomenon known as a megamaser. At more than five billion …

Ever since Apple introduced FaceID with the iPhone X, its customers have been complaining about the notch. Apple didn’t seem to care about the online backlash though. It even put the cursed notch in its latest MacBook Pros. However, it now appears Apple has been aware of the criticism, and …

Last year, news broke that scientists had discovered a huge inbound comet, named Bernardinelli-Bernstein. It was the most distant comet we’d ever discovered. And it was huge, so big scientists originally thought it was a minor planet. But it was so distant that all our pictures were still blurry. So, …

Given the number of exploding rocket videos on the internet, it should come as no surprise that getting to space is hard. It takes a lot of energy to break free of Earth’s gravity, and that currently means strapping our precious cargo to what is essentially a tube full of …

An important test for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is slated to get underway (again). Earlier this year, NASA assembled the Artemis 1 SLS rocket and transported it to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center. However, issues with fans on the tower and a valve in the rocket itself …

The planet Neptune is about 30 times farther from the sun than Earth, and as you’d expect, it’s a frigid world. As it turns out, it’s getting even colder when it should be heating up. That’s the latest from an international team of astronomers that just completed a 17-year analysis …