A SpaceX Dragon cargo flight to the ISS has been postponed until Wednesday due to moldy mouse chow. Originally scheduled to lift off today, the unmanned CRS-16 mission has been set back until 1:16 pm December 5, 2018 EST because food bars for a rodent experiment have gone off and need replacement.
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The first manned Soyuz flight since the dramatic abort incident in October has lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft launched at 6:31 am EST (5:31 pm Baikonur time) and docked with the International Space Station eight hours later.
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After two years and two months of travel across 1.2 billion mi (two billion km), NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has reached the asteroid Bennu.
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Less than a week has passed since NASA’s Insight spacecraft settled into its dusty landing site on the surface of Mars, but the intrepid science laboratory has already claimed a new record for power generation on the Red Planet.
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Astronomers have now asked “how much light has been emitted in the universe?” Using a new measurement method, the team has apparently managed to quantify all the starlight every produced in the observable universe – and the result is a figure that’ll make your eyes water.
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released a Statement on the State of the Climate in 2018. Temperature records were shattered, sea ice shrank and extreme weather events devastated every continent in one of the hottest years on record.
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NASA's ambition to return to the Moon shifted forward today as the space agency announced nine US companies that are now eligible to bid on future lunar lander missions to test new technologies as pathfinders for a new phase of American manned Moon missions.
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NASA's InSight Mars lander is in good health as it completes its first day on the Martian surface and begins the first phase of its two-year mission to study of the interior of the Red Planet.
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For the first time in over six years, a spacecraft has landed on Mars. At about 11:54 am PST (2:54 pm EST) this Monday, the unmanned NASA InSight lander touched down on the Red Planet at the Elysium Planitia in the northern hemisphere.
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The Fourth National Climate Assessment report has been published. Based on decades of environmental research by scientists from 13 federal agencies, the report outlines the findings of ongoing climate studies, their impact and what we should be doing about it.
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