NASA is seeking help to crash the space station

NASA is seeking help to crash the space station

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 …

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Remarkable imagery shows NASA probe hit by a solar storm

Remarkable imagery shows NASA probe hit by a solar storm

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 …

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How to watch final moments of NASA’s asteroid sample return

How to watch final moments of NASA’s asteroid sample return

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 …

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