March 31, 2021 Ingenuity Mars helicopter deploys to Martian surface, readies for flight NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Ingenuity Mars helicopter is readying for a historic mission.
March 30, 2021 Biden WH keeps Trump's National Space Council despite mocking Space Force While President Biden has put as much distance as possible between himself and most of his predecessor’s policies, there is one area that Biden appears satisfied not to touch—space.
March 30, 2021 Southwest Airlines passenger becomes 'verbally abusive' to crew over mask dispute A passenger on a flight from Miami to Chicago Tuesday afternoon refused to comply with the plane's face mask policy and was "verbally abusive" to the crew, Southwest Airlines said.
March 30, 2021 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei readies for April flight to International Space Station NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei is set to lift off aboard the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on an April 9 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
March 30, 2021 Virgin Galactic unveils new 'SpaceShipThree' space plane Commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic unveiled the piloted space plane "VSS Imagine" on Tuesday.
March 27, 2021 NASA's Orion capsule begins new water drop tests NASA engineers at the Virginia-based Langley Research Center have begun a new series of four water-impact drop tests using a test version of the agency's Orion spacecraft capsule.
March 27, 2021 Alabama 'supercell' that produced tornado captured in satellite imagery This week's severe weather in the Mid-South was visible from outer space.
March 26, 2021 NASA gives all clear: Earth safe from asteroid threats for 100 years Whew, now here’s some good cosmic news: NASA has given Earth the all clear for the next century from a particularly menacing asteroid.
March 26, 2021 Mysterious Seattle light show likely debris from SpaceX rocket A mysterious light show that illuminated the sky above parts of the Pacific Northwest on Thursday night was likely the remains of a SpaceX rocket entering Earth’s atmosphere, authorities said.
March 25, 2021 Astronomers capture new polarized view of a black hole Scientists from the international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration announced Wednesday that they had been able to map the magnetic fields around a black hole using polarized light waves for the first time, releasing a stunning image of the supermassive object at the center of the Messier 87 (M87) galaxy.