Media playback is unsupported on your device The demonstration of a new US system to get astronauts into orbit is under way. The SpaceX company has launched a capsule from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida designed to carry people. The mission is uncrewed for this flight, but if it goes well, the American space […]
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NASA celebrates Earth’s incredible natural beauty with free photo book
Previous Next If you ever need reminding just how incredible and unique Earth really is, then bury yourself in this wonderful treat from NASA that shows our planet in all its natural glory. The book, appropriately titled Earth, features stunning imagery captured over the years by various NASA satellites. There’s a hardcover version for $ 53 ($ […]
After a record-setting 15 years, NASA ends Opportunity rover’s tour of Mars
Opportunity self-portrait NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell NASA has officially called it quits on its record-setting Mars rover Opportunity, eight months after last hearing from the lander. The space agency has been attempting to make contact with the rover since communications went dark following an intense dust storm in 2018. Having issued more than 1,000 recovery commands, this week […]
NASA has a $3.5 billion idea to save Earth from a supervolcano apocalypse
Yellowstone National Park sits atop a massive supervolcano that’s considered one of the greatest volcano threats in the county. While experts estimate that a super-eruption might not happen for another few million years, NASA scientists performed a thought experiment to determine how we could prevent Yellowstone from erupting. Their hypothetical idea involves cooling the volcano […]
NASA probe to visit Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on New Year’s Day
NASA’s New Horizons probe is exploring the furthest regions of our Solar System and will be making a very special visit on New Year’s Day 2019, when it will buzz an object unofficially called Ultima Thule, also known as Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. Sitting 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) from Earth, Ultima Thule […]
Nasa hack exposes space agency staff's data
Nasa has emailed its staff to warn them that hackers may have stolen their personal details. The message said it suspected that two of its servers containing details of past and present employees had been compromised. It added that it did not believe any Nasa mission had been put in jeopardy. One expert noted that […]
NASA selects the all-important landing site for its Mars 2020 rover mission
After years of consideration, NASA has finally chosen the all-important landing site for its Mars 2020 rover. The location is known as Jezero Crater, and on several occasions in the dim and distant past water is believed to have flowed into it before draining away. As a result, scientists believe that “microbial life could have […]
Here’s how the InSight mission to Mars will confirm its landing to NASA
NASA’s InSight mission aims to send a lander to Mars to study the crust, mantle, and core of the red planet. Launched in May this year, InSight is now nearly at its destination and will soon be touching down on the surface of Mars. NASA has shared details on how it will monitor the touching down […]
NASA dreams of fueling up its rockets at a gas station on Mars by 2038
Glen Benson/NASA The idea of robots mining for dirt on Mars, which could then be transformed into water, oxygen, or rocket fuel, sounds like some futuristic sci-fi concept. But it’s an actual idea that NASA scientists are working to make a reality just a couple of decades from now. It’s part of research that could […]