NASA’s innovative Mars helicopter will continue to fly at least through September. The small helicopter made a trip to Mars aboard the Perseverance Rover in the summer of 2020 and landed on the crater of the planet Jezero in February of the following year. A few months later, the Ingenuity made history as the first-ever … Read more
The world’s first space observatory has successfully completed a number of critical steps to align the 18 Golden Mirror segments. After verifying this achievement from Webb’s list, the telescope team expects that the observatory may exceed the goals it was supposed to achieve. On March 11, Webb completed “fine staging,” a critical phase that ensures … Read more
NASA will release new images of James Webb Space Telescope And discuss the painstaking progress in aligning the observatory today (March 16) and you can follow it live online. The space agency will hold a virtual press conference in 12 PM EST (1600 GMT) It will be broadcast live on NASA TV, the NASA App, … Read more
This photo was taken of the fireball that exploded over Utah in 2009. On Friday, March 11th, a similar asteroid exploded over the Arctic Ocean. Astronomers discovered and tracked this asteroid just hours before the collision. (ksl.com) Estimated reading time: 4-5 minutes SALT LAKE CITY – An asteroid smaller than a GPS satellite but traveling … Read more
Asteroid 2022 EB5 hit the ocean on Monday, but NASA knew exactly where it was for more than two hours (this … [+] This is an illustration, not a picture of the event. GT Some said it was ladder size. Others said it was more like Half the size of a giraffe. Either way, on … Read more
The space station is preparing for more power upgrades as two NASA astronauts perform their first spacewalk of the year on Tuesday. Astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari donned and exited the space station to begin some installation at about 8:12 a.m. ET. Live coverage has begun on NASA TV and website At 6:30 a.m. … Read more
About 2.3 billion years ago, oxygen began to accumulate in the atmosphere, eventually reaching the life-sustaining levels we breathe today. A new hypothesis proposed by MIT scientists suggests a mechanism for how this might happen. In the photo are examples of ancient organisms. Credit: MIT News Microbes and minerals may have released Earth’s oxygen Scientists … Read more
Zoom / Illustration of a swarm of small black holes in a gas disk orbiting a supermassive black hole. Samsing / Niels Bohr Institute In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitational wave signal from a black hole merger that proved to be one of the record books. Dubbed ‘GW190521’, it was the most … Read more
The Sun continues its tumultuous behavior, with flares and coronal mass ejections nearly every day since mid-January. This means that the inevitable has happened: some of those eruptions have exploded in the general direction of the Earth, which means that we are in some solar storms. US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather … Read more
The race for space has quietly intensified in parallel with the geopolitical competition unfolding here on Earth. China, for example, has made great strides in its space programs and is looking to take the lead from Russia in challenging American hegemony. Wu Weiren, chief designer of China’s lunar exploration program, recently announced that China wants … Read more
