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Space school is officially in session and here's your center seat invitation!

NASA leaders said the Crew-11 mission's astronaut medical evacuation shows how the agency is prepared to handle the unexpected.

The DJI Neo 2 delivers improved image quality alongside Omnidirectional Obstacle Avoidance and many other new and impressive features.

"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."

(Left to Right) Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya You inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour shortly after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls.

Four space station crewmates undocked and plunged back to Earth Thursday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast six days after NASA ordered them home early because of a medical issue.

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission splashed down safely today (Jan. 15) after the first-ever medical evacuation of the International Space Station.

After more than 10 years in orbit, the first Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, Sentinel-2A, is still finding new ways to contribute to Earth observation. With its younger siblings, Sentinel-2B and Sentinel-2C, now leading the mission’s core task of delivering high-resolution, ‘camera-like’ images of Earth’s surface, the European Space Agency is pushing Sentinel-2A beyond its original remit.

2026 sees Starfleet Academy and a new season of Strange New Worlds enter the Star Trek universe, so now is the time to save big on Paramount Plus and a VPN.

"If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe."

The four members of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission are shown suited in their intra-vehicular activity (IVA) flight suits ahead of their departure from the International Space Station. From left to right: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, NASA astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui. Image: Mike Fincke/NASA

The SpaceX Crew-11 mission is coming to a close with the crew preparing to depart the International Space Station Wednesday afternoon and splashdown off the coast of California in the predawn hours on Thursday.

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries."

"It's hopeful about the future, and we need that optimistic enthusiasm right now."

A SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 29 Starlink satellites launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026.

"We're seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole's accretion flow."

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.