The four Artemis II astronauts who will embark on a flyby of the moon in November next year successfully conducted a pre-launch practice run on Wednesday. In line with launch day procedures, NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, started the day by waking up …
NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has set a new flight record on the red planet. On its 59th flight just a few days ago, the drone-like machine reached an altitude of 20 meters, beating its previous record, set in December last year, by 6 meters. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is overseeing the mission that …
From left to right: Dr. Camilo Jaramillo-Correa (holding the capsule with the asteroid Ryugu … [+] particles), Dr. Mike Zolensky (NASA), Dr. Faith Vilas (Planetary Science Institute), Dr. Amanda Hendrix (Planetary Science Institute) on Sept 8 2021 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Amanda Hendrix Not everyone get to hold dust brought from outer …
A NASA spacecraft captured incredible imagery as it flew through an eruption from the sun recently. Pictures beamed back to scientists on Earth even show the fiery ejection “vacuuming up” space dust left over from the formation of the solar system. The fly-through by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took place on September 5 and NASA …
In just a few days from now, NASA will oversee the final moments of its groundbreaking OSIRIS-REx mission, which marks the first time for the agency to bring back rock samples collected from a distant asteroid. The space agency will live stream the homecoming of the capsule that’s carrying the all-important samples that were gathered …
SpaceX chief Elon Musk is keen to send its next-generation Starship rocket on what will be its second crewless test mission after the first one ended spectacularly minutes after launch in April. But first SpaceX has to receive a launch permit from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The latest news, which dropped via Reuters on …
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The James Webb Space Telescope has been gathering images and data for almost a year now, providing valuable information about stars, planetary systems, and distant galaxies. Unlike its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb records infrared light, allowing it to see through gas and dust clouds that block visible light. It also boasts a larger …
The occurrence of seasons on the planets in our solar system is due to their tilt in their orbits, resulting in one hemisphere receiving more sunlight at certain times of the year. However, another factor that impacts weather and conditions on planets is their position in their orbit around the sun. Unlike Earth, which has …
A new perspective on the Crab Nebula, one of astronomy’s most beautiful creations, has been provided by a NASA X-ray instrument. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observatory was launched in December 2021 and is presently orbiting Earth, observing X-ray sources like black holes and pulsars from space. Despite being an essential tool for scientists …
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Right now, the International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth every 90 minutes at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour, around 250 miles above the surface. For more than two decades, the ISS has served as a microgravity research center for scientists to conduct thousands of experiments, investigate Alzheimer’s disease and cancer, study the …