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Nasa announces uncrewed flights around the Moon to begin in February 2022
The Orion capsule will be launched on the Space Launch System, paving the way for the resumption of people to walk on Earth’s satellite again…
NASA Is Preparing for the Ravages of Climate Change
The agency knows it needs to adapt to climate-driven events that will increasingly threaten coastal launch sites and other key space infrastructure. Source: https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-is-preparing-for-the-ravages-of-climate-change/ Droolin’…
A giant asteroid buzzed the Earth yesterday
A gigantic asteroid that is considered potentially hazardous by NASA zipped past the Earth yesterday at a very high rate of speed. The asteroid, called…
NASA highlights the changing Martian environment Curiosity is exploring
It may be a surprise to learn that NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring the Red Planet for nine years. Over the years, as the…
NASA Refines Threat Posed by Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Bennu
Data gathered during the years NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spent zipping around asteroid Bennu has allowed scientists to update the risk posed by this potentially hazardous near-Earth…
NASA’s Perseverance rover fails to collect its first Mars rock sample
NASA’s Perseverance rover just had a rare misstep. The space agency has revealed that the robotic vehicle failed to collect Mars rock samples during its…
Boeing and NASA delay Starliner launch due to unexpected valve problem
Boeing will have to wait yet again to prove the worth of its Starliner spacecraft. The company and NASA had planned to launch the capsule…
Russian module suddenly fires thrusters after docking with space station
Enlarge / Russian “Nauka” module approaches the International Space Station. (credit: Roscosmos) Flight controllers at NASA and Roscosmos averted a disaster on Thursday after a…
NASA Captures Spooky Photo of the Moon’s Shadow on Earth During an Eclipse
Earthlings were privy to an exciting astronomical event last month: an annular solar eclipse, which cast a lunar shadow across the Arctic Circle. Today NASA…
NASA clears Boeing Starliner for July 30th test flight to ISS
More than 18 months after its failed first attempt to make it to the International Space Station, Boeing’s Starliner is ready for a second shot….
NASA’s Ingenuity completes ninth flight despite massive challenge
NASA has announced that Ingenuity, its small Martian helicopter, successfully passed its ninth and most challenging flight thus far, marking a new milestone for the…
Researchers harness a NASA satellite to track microplastics in the Atlantic
Researchers from the University of Michigan have devised a way to use data collected by NASA satellites to track the movement of tiny pieces of…
NASA: Earth Is Absorbing an ‘Unprecedented’ Amount of Heat
Ominous new research shows that the Earth is taking in a shocking amount of heat. In the past 15 years, the amount of incoming solar…
NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Nails Its Seventh Flight on Mars
The seventh flight of NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars saw the vehicle fly nearly 350 feet to a landing spot that hadn’t been closely surveyed…
Solar Orbiter scores an unexpected first sighting for NASA’s Sun imager
NASA and the ESA’s Solar Orbiter may not be fully operational yet, but that hasn’t stopped the Sun probe from capturing one of its first…
Congress fires warning shot at NASA after SpaceX Moon lander award
Enlarge / Committee Chair Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., listens to former US Sen. Bill Nelson, President Biden’s nominee to be the next administrator of NASA,…
NASA Admin Scolds China After Out-of-Control Rocket Lands in Indian Ocean
After days of fretting over when and where an out-of-control Chinese rocket would land as it fell back to Earth, China announced early Sunday that…
NASA solar probe grazes a Venus mystery on its slingshot to the Sun
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe may be focused on the Sun, but that doesn’t mean the space agency’s scientists are going to give up on an…
Mars helicopter had successful first flight!
Ingenuity—the small helicopter delivered to Mars by the Perseverance rover—has successfully taken its first flight on the Red Planet! he distance between Earth and Mars…
NASA just approved the SpaceX Crew-2 launch: Date and Details
NASA has given the green-light for the SpaceX Crew-2 mission to launch in a week’s time, it’s been confirmed, with four astronauts after headed out…
NASA developed a new method of predicting volcanic eruptions using satellites
It’s notoriously difficult to predict volcanic corruptions. There are often signs that a volcano is likely to erupt in the future, including an increase in…
Nasa scientists find unlikely tool as rising temperatures bleach corals: a phone app
Without the app, mapping reefs usually involves high amounts of data and low-quality photos, which leads to slow analysis Less than 1% of the ocean…
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