114 Asteroids Came Closer to Earth Than the Moon This Year, There Are Over 30K Out There
5 Oct 2023, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's September 2023 update on the number of known near-Earth asteroids reveals there are at least 31,248 of them out there
Exoplanet Gives Death the Finger, Escapes Its Sun's Red Giant Stage
5 Oct 2023, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A TESS study into 8 Ursae Minoris b, a planet located 530 light-years from Earth, shows it escaped its stars worst red giant phase
3 Alternative Scenarios NASA Considered Before Deciding to Crash the ISS
30 Sep 2023, 23:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and partner space agencies in the operation of the International Space Station considered several options before deciding to kill the laboratory
Autonomous Robot Learning to Pick Up Lightsaber-Like Tubes From the Surface of Mars
29 Sep 2023, 07:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency is hard at work teaching itself and a prototype rover how to pick up the samples of alien world the Perseverance is gathering
USAF Shares a Joby eVTOL With NASA, Test Flights to Begin at Edwards Air Force Base
27 Sep 2023, 05:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Joby Aviation delivered this week the first eVTOL prototype to the Edwards Air Force Base in California, aircraft to be used by both NASA and the USAF
All Four RS-25 Engines Are in Place on the Moon Rocket, Boosters Arrive by Train
26 Sep 2023, 08:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA announces the installation of all four engine on the Space Launch System core stage, boosters are now on location as well
For the First Time Ever a Piece of Asteroid Landed in the U.S. Instead of Crashing
25 Sep 2023, 05:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA managed to safely bring down a capsule containing a sample of asteroid Bennu, the work on unlocking its secrets has only just begun
NASA's LRO Snaps Mosaic of Lunar Crater Deeper Than the Grand Canyon
24 Sep 2023, 05:20 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / At some point in the distant past, an assuredly vast piece of unknown space debris impacted the Moon at the modern-day site of Shackleton Crater. U
7 Key Tests NASA Has to Burn Through Before Artemis II Moon Launch
22 Sep 2023, 08:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA began this week a series of seven major test procedures that are meant to ensure the successful and safe launch of the Artemis II mission
This Black Dot Is a Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth, It Comes in a Spaceship
21 Sep 2023, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just a few days are left until the OSIRIS-REx spaceship drops a capsule containing an asteroid sample, Europeans snatch it on film as it approaches
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Drag Races Through Coronal Explosion, Lives to Collect Data
20 Sep 2023, 16:55 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / A careful study of the data the Parker Solar Probe collected during the incident seems to comport with a research paper published in 2003.
America Is Getting an Asteroid Delivery From Space, Here's Where to Watch
19 Sep 2023, 05:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Sunday, September 24, the OSIRIS-REx mission ends with a capsule containing a piece of an asteroid landing in the Utah desert
JWST Detects Molecule on Exoplanet That’s Only Made by Life, Is It the Smoking Gun?
18 Sep 2023, 16:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / By non-astrophysicist standards, K2-18 b is a peculiar exoplanet. One roughly 8.6 times the size of Earth by the latest measurements.
Spacemaster Is the Wacky Shuttle That Might Have Been, CGI Makes It Fly for the First Time
15 Sep 2023, 08:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Martin Marietta Spacemaster was a spaceship design proposed and rejected in the 1960s, it's an aternative take on the Shuttle we know and love
NASA Finishes Oxygen Production Experiment on the Surface of Mars: No, It’s Not Alchemy
14 Sep 2023, 16:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of course, 122 grams of oxygen might not sound like anything impressive. But before you downplay the scale of the achievement, consider this.
NASA-Inspired METL Bike Tires Promise a Flat-Free Ride, Powered by Shape-Shifting Metal
14 Sep 2023, 16:20 UTC · By: Mircea Mazuru / Smart Tire Company describes its METL tires as "nearly indestructible" - they're built from nitinol, a shape memory alloy, and are designed to last a lifetime
Repurposed Space Shuttle RS-25 Engines to Fly Alongside New Ones on Artemis II Rocket
14 Sep 2023, 07:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it installed the first of four RS-25 engines on the Space Launch System destined for the Artemis II Moon mission.
American Hero Sets New Record for Most Consecutive Days in Space on His First Mission
13 Sep 2023, 06:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American astronaut Frank Rubio will have spent a total of 371 consecutive days on the ISS upon his return later this month, a new NASA record
NASA's LRO Spots Crater Where Russia's Luna 25 Probe Went Splat
2 Sep 2023, 17:51 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Using impact-site coordinates published by Roscosmos themselves, NASA's LRO could pinpoint and precisely pinpoint the location of Russia's doomed lunar probe.
Countdown Begins for Unprecedented Asteroid Sample Landing in the Utah Desert
31 Aug 2023, 08:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-Rex spaceship is now less than a month away from Earth, it will deliver samples of a 4.5 billion years old asteroid on September 24