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NASA Is Tracking a Vast Anomaly Growing in Earth's Magnetic Field
For years, NASA has monitored a strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field: a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.
FIRST ON FOX: In a newly released video obtained by Fox News Digital, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy announced that America will travel back to the Moon before President Donald Trump leaves office, and declared the U.S. will win "the second space ...
NASA on Monday slashed the number of astronaut missions on Boeing's Starliner contract and said the spacecraft's next mission to the International Space Station will fly without a crew, reducing the scope of a program hobbled by engineering woes and outpaced by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
After the Boeing Starliner's troubled June 2024 flight test, Starliner will get another NASA mission. But it will be uncrewed.
The next trip to space for Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner spacecraft won’t have a crew on board after NASA announced changes to the commercial crew contract.
The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, confirming Monday that the vehicle will carry only cargo to the International Space Station.
SpaceX conducted its first crewed demonstration flight in 2020 and has since reliably ferried astronauts to and from the ISS. Boeing has fared less well, finally getting a crewed test flight launched in 2024, only to have to return the capsule uncrewed.
Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold and dry, scientists have long thought that electric charge could build up in the air, especially during dust storms, when particles rub against each other and then discharge.