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A technical hiccup prevented NASA's giant moon rocket, the Space Launch System, from leaving the launch pad on Monday. So NASA will try again on Saturday in hopes that their engineers have solved the problem. Here's what you need to know…

Before NASA can send astronauts back to the moon, it needs a successful test flight of the Space Launch System, a giant rocket built for the agency with lunar missions in mind. On Monday, we'll get to see the first attempt at launching this…

NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has confirmed the successful collection of its first rock sample.“One down, a lot more to go!” Kenneth A. Farley, professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology and the mission’s…

The fate of almost everything on Earth’s surface is determined by infernal engines deep below. Mars is no different. Now, thanks to an intrepid robot parked on the Martian surface by NASA in November 2018, scientists have a map of our…

For something that was to have been done and thrown away three years ago, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has a busy schedule ahead exploring Jupiter and its big moons.The spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, and has survived…

Ingenuity, NASA's little Mars helicopter that could still fly, will be able to fly even more.A week and a half ago, the little flying robot made history as the first powered airplane to take off from another world. On Friday the fourth…

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ceremoniously raises his arms beneath a prototype Starship rocket under construction in Boca Chica, Texas.Steve Jurvetson on flickrElon Musk's SpaceX knocked out teams led by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Leidos…

Before the NASA Perseverance rover searches for signs of past Mars microbes, it will first take on the most technologically exciting part of its mission: flying a helicopter.Under the belly of Perseverance, a car-sized robotic vehicle that…

Update, March 18: This essay has been revised to reflect that the Space Launch System has completed its second hot fire test.Eleven years in the making, NASA's most powerful rocket since the Apollo program has finally stood upright. Framed…

What is it like to land on Mars?Now you can watch as if you were there in captivating, high definition clarity.On Monday, NASA released a short video captured by the agency's spacecraft Perseverance as it fell through the Martian atmosphere…