Solar eclipse: How to safely shoot or record on your phone Here’s what to know about safely capturing photos of the total solar eclipse with your cellphone. The day so many have been anxiously looking forward to is finally here — the 2024 solar eclipse! Unlike the last solar eclipse Nashville witnessed seven years ago, …
China is speeding up satellite internet development, aiming to launch more satellites to build up its own communication satellite constellation. China first included satellite internet as a key focus of its “new infrastructure” policy support in 2020. By 2023, satellite direct-to-car and direct-to-phone technologies began to debut, marking the beginning of the era of mega-constellations. …
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At an average of 140 million miles away, Mars is pretty much in Earth’s planetary backyard. With a well-timed launch, a rocket can reach it in less than a year. Since 1965, humankind has successfully sent over 20 missions—flybys, orbiters, landers, rovers—to survey Mars’s dusty terrains. And we’ve learned a lot about our neighbor, from …
When NASA’s two Artemis astronauts step onto the lunar surface in the next few years, the world will be watching. The highly anticipated mission will mark the first crewed landing in more than five decades and will see the first woman and first person of color reaching the lunar surface. And so with all that …
ESA/Swatch Space fans have been marveling at the stunning images beamed to Earth by the James Webb Space Telescope ever since it went into operation last year. The most powerful space telescope ever built is using its near-infrared camera (NIRCam) to peer deeper into space than ever before, with scientists hoping that its discoveries could …
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio shortly after returning to Earth after becoming the first American astronaut to spend a full year in orbit. NASA Frank Rubio has arrived home safely after spending 371 days in space — a record for a NASA astronaut. Rubio departed the International Space Station (ISS) with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and …
The International Space Station (ISS) is set to be decommissioned in 2031, at which point it will have spent three decades orbiting Earth. But NASA doesn’t want to leave the 356-feet-long (109 meters) facility drifting in orbit as it would add to the growing amount of hazardous space junk already in low-Earth orbit, and would …
A composite image, annotated at JPL using visualization software, showing Perseverance’s path through a dense section of boulders. The pale blue line indicates the course of the center of the front wheel hubs, while darker blue lines show the paths of the rover’s six wheels. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, has used its self-driving smarts …
ESA/NASA Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) keep a busy schedule during their six-month stints in orbit. Most of their time is taken up with carrying out scientific research in the unique microgravity conditions that the facility provides, while the occasional spacewalk takes care of upgrades and general maintenance. The research programs include …
NASA has succeeded in bringing back to Earth a capsule containing samples gathered from an asteroid — a first for the space agency. The sample return capsule (SRC) from the OSIRIS-REx mission landed at 8:52 a.m. MT (10:52 a.m. ET) on Sunday in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training …