A series of green laser beams seen over Hawaii in January. (National Observatory of Japan) Above the islands of Hawaii on January 28th, a green laser was seen piercing the evening sky, silently tracing a course towards the horizon such as a stutter in the Matrix's code. The scene was captured on camera from a telescope atop...
In this photo made available by NASA, the space shuttle Challenger launches the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite in 1984. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, the U.S. space agency said the 38-year-old NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky, but the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is “very low.” It's expected to...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The outcomes represent an initial step toward developing what scholars expect will become the capacity to foresee whether a slow-moving landslide will fail and slide downhill. Climate modification is leading more volatile precipitation patterns worldwide-- very dry stretches punctuated by storms that drop large quantities of rain or snow in a short...
Orion passed a mere 130km (80 miles) from the lunar surface at closest approach. Credit: Nasa The US space agency's Orion capsule is coming home The spacecraft performed a significant engine burn on Monday in the vicinity of the Moon, giving it an orbit that will result in a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday. It...
Ad Astra’s rocket will travel ten times quicker than today’s chemical rockets while using one-tenth the amount of fuel. NASA lately delivered $10 million in financing to Ad Astra Rocket Company of Texas for more development of its Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), an electromagnetic thruster efficient of propelling a spaceship to Mars in...
NASA's Orion spacecraft en route for the Moon, with the Earth in the background, in a photo released by NASA in November 2022. Exceeding expectations On the third day after taking off from Florida bound for the Moon, the Orion spacecraft is "surpassing effectiveness expectations," NASA officials stated on Friday. First flight aims to ensure vehicle safety The...
Credit: NASA, Jim Watson / Getty Images An asteroid notoriously erased the dinosaurs about 66 million years ago. Could one more one do the very same to us? That question has led NASA researchers and designers to create the DART program, whose duty was to redirect the motion of an asteroid. The mission was a...
An artist's impression of the LOFTID aeroshell. Credit: NASA just recently turned one sci-fi technology into reality by crashing a spacecraft into one asteroid with its Dual Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. Now, the space company aims to test a large inflatable aeroshell that can one day be used to deploy massive payloads on Mars...
Surface features of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa are revealed in an image obtained by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) during the spacecraft’s Sept. 29, 2022, flyby. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI The highest-resolution photo NASA's Juno objective has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter's moon Europa shows a detailed view of a puzzling region of the...
An astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this image of the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009. Credits: NASA NASA and SpaceX authorized an unfunded Space Act Agreement Thursday, Sept. 22nd, to study the feasibility of a SpaceX and Polaris Program concept to boost the agency's Hubble Space Telescope into a greater orbit...
