Tag: Space

  • NASA Devises Bizarre Plan to Use Paragliders to ‘Ferry’ Space Tech Back to Earth

    NASA Devises Bizarre Plan to Use Paragliders to ‘Ferry’ Space Tech Back to Earth

    Rapidly advancing technology has allowed us to explore outer space in ways previously unimaginable. However, with that growing accessibility to outer space comes a significant increase in debris. Current estimates are that hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris, large and small, litter the atmosphere around the planet. In an…

  • NASA to Launch Mission to Find Water on the Moon

    NASA to Launch Mission to Find Water on the Moon

    50 years after the last Apollo mission and NASA is going back to the Moon. The Artemis mission is on track after a successful splashdown earlier in December. Now a multidisciplinary team is gearing up to try and find water on the Moon. The team is at the Open University…

  • ‘Rescue Vehicle’ May Be Needed to Bring NASA Astronaut, Russian Cosmonauts Home From Space

    ‘Rescue Vehicle’ May Be Needed to Bring NASA Astronaut, Russian Cosmonauts Home From Space

    NASA and Russian Space Agency officials are scrambling to bring home two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut after there was a hiccup in their journey home from the International Space Station. According to reports, on Dec. 14, crews located a substance leaking from the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft. At the time,…

  • NASA Catches Monstrous Black Hole Devouring a Star

    NASA Catches Monstrous Black Hole Devouring a Star

    NASA astronomers recently witnessed a massive black hole devour a star in great detail. And now they may soon be able to answer many questions surrounding the physics of the elaborate process. The event took place in a galaxy some 250 million light years away from Earth. And it gave…

  • Space Station Forced to Dodge Debris, Delaying US Spacewalk

    Space Station Forced to Dodge Debris, Delaying US Spacewalk

    There’s considerably less traffic in space, however, despite that, the International Space Station was forced to avoid a collision with a chunk of Russian space debris Wednesday after it came “dangerously close” to the craft. That said, avoiding the collision meant delaying a U.S. spacewalk necessary for helping improve the…

  • NASA Reveals Location of the Coldest Place on Earth

    NASA Reveals Location of the Coldest Place on Earth

    Did you know that indigenous groups such as the Inuits of the Canadian arctic live in temperatures plummeting to -60 degrees Fahrenheit in winter? To put that into perspective, human tissue freezes at around 31 degrees Fahrenheit without the proper clothing. To withstand these temperatures, they wear two layers of…

  • NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Sends Potential Final Image Back to Earth

    NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Sends Potential Final Image Back to Earth

    It looks like it’s the end of the road for NASA’s Mars Lander InSight. This comes as the Mars probe has transmitted what is very likely its last images. According to reports, the impressively clear images sent to NASA from the Mars probe early this week may be the final…

  • Dangerous Sunspot Sends Huge Solar Flare Toward Earth

    Dangerous Sunspot Sends Huge Solar Flare Toward Earth

    Sunspots have been hurling massive solar flares toward Earth over the past week. And scientists warn that the worst may be yet to come. Sunspots are patches on the surface of the sun that appear darker than their surroundings due to a stronger-than-usual magnetic field. When the magnetic field lines…

  • NASA Makes Incredible Discovery About Two Far-Off Planets

    NASA Makes Incredible Discovery About Two Far-Off Planets

    Did you know that NASA has confirmed more than 5,000 exoplanets to date? This isn’t the result of hundreds of years of scientific discovery, either. The first exoplanets were just documented in the 1990s! “Exoplanet” makes these discoveries sound a little like something out of a sci-fi movie. But it’s…

  • NASA’s Asteroid-Destroying Mission Broke Apart Over 2 Million Pounds of Rock

    NASA’s Asteroid-Destroying Mission Broke Apart Over 2 Million Pounds of Rock

    Let’s go back to late September, when NASA intentionally blew apart a small asteroid. It was all an experiment to see if anyone on Earth could successfully deflect a dangerous space object hurtling its way towards the planet. NASA did break apart the asteroid known as Dimorphos on Sept. 26.…

  • Listen: NASA Records What a ‘Dust Devil’ Sounds Like on Mars

    Listen: NASA Records What a ‘Dust Devil’ Sounds Like on Mars

    For the first time ever, NASA’s Perseverance rover has recorded the sound of a “dust devil” swirling on Mars. The opportunity came by surprise when the 390 ft high and 82 ft wide whirlwind soured directly above the rover’s SuperCam microphone. Despite the rarity of the catch, dust devils are…

  • NASA Approves ‘Asteroid-Hunting’ Telescope, Aims for 2028 Launch

    NASA Approves ‘Asteroid-Hunting’ Telescope, Aims for 2028 Launch

    Last week, it was confirmed that NASA has green-lit an asteroid-hunting space telescope with the goal to launch in 2028. In NASA’s December 6th update, it was revealed that the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor space telescope officially passed the Key Decision Point C review (KDP-C). “The decision commits NASA to a…

  • Artemis I Moon Missions Ends with Orion Capsule Splashdown Into the Pacific

    Artemis I Moon Missions Ends with Orion Capsule Splashdown Into the Pacific

    The Artemis I mission just finished the final stretch of its journey, returning to the inner layer of the Earth’s atmosphere at a blazing speed. The spacecraft made a successful splashdown off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California in the Pacific on Sunday at 12:40 ET. The 25½-day unmanned test…

  • WATCH: Midshipmen Debut Incredible NASA-Themed Uniforms at Army-Navy Game

    WATCH: Midshipmen Debut Incredible NASA-Themed Uniforms at Army-Navy Game

    Prior to the big match-up between U.S. Army and Navy, the Midshipmen debuted incredible NASA-themed uniforms for the football game.  “Ready for Lift Off!” the Naval Academy’s Athletic Department declared The post also featured a video of the Midshipmen football players dressed in the uniforms ready to take on Army. …

  • NASA’s Mars Mission Breaks Major Record With Ingenuity Helicopter

    NASA’s Mars Mission Breaks Major Record With Ingenuity Helicopter

    In the summer of 2020, NASA launched Percy (full name, Perseverance), a car-sized rover, as part of the Mars 2020 mission. For seven long months, Percy traveled through the vacuum of space, drifting among the stars toward the Red Planet with a small robotic helicopter fondly dubbed Ginny (Ingenuity) in…

  • NASA Celebrates 50-Year Anniversary of Last Trip to the Moon

    NASA Celebrates 50-Year Anniversary of Last Trip to the Moon

    The fact that NASA has sent people to the moon is perhaps the most scientifically impressive accomplishment in history. 50 years ago today the last successful mission to send astronauts to the moon was launched. The Apollo 17 mission was the sixth and final lunar exploration mission conducted by NASA.…

  • NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Captures Jaw-Dropping Video of the Moon While Returning to Earth

    NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Captures Jaw-Dropping Video of the Moon While Returning to Earth

    NASA‘s Artemis I rocket is on its way back to Earth for a Dec. 11 splashdown and the Orion spacecraft captured some of its final close-up images of the Moon as it travels back home. On Dec. 5, the rocket made a monumental 207-second engine burn that put it on…

  • NASA Discovers Tiny ‘Peekaboo’ Galaxy That Can Give a Look Into the Past

    NASA Discovers Tiny ‘Peekaboo’ Galaxy That Can Give a Look Into the Past

    The very first documented stargazing session dates back to 1000 BCE Mesopotamia, long before the inception of NASA and other space agencies. Around three thousand years have passed since then – and in that time, we’ve learned far more than ancient man could’ve ever imagined. We not only have a…

  • NASA’s Viking 1 May Have Discovered an Ancient Martian Megatsunami

    NASA’s Viking 1 May Have Discovered an Ancient Martian Megatsunami

    Named for the Roman god of war, Mars is a desolate wasteland of dust and rust-colored rock – at least, it is now. Actually, scientists believe that it was once Earth in miniature. Through decades of study, researchers at NASA have discovered that the surface of Mars used to feature…

  • WATCH: NASA Captures Mind-Blowing View of Rocket During Launch

    WATCH: NASA Captures Mind-Blowing View of Rocket During Launch

    NASA recently posted a rare look at the Artemis I rocket launch from the point of view of the rocket. The video features a camera on the side of the rocket angled down, so viewers can witness the awesome power that goes into getting that rocket off the ground and…

  • NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Breaks Major Space Travel Record

    NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Breaks Major Space Travel Record

    NASA‘s Orion spacecraft, connected to the Artemis I mission, is breaking records left and right. The spacecraft recently moved around 270,000 miles away from Earth, the farthest a spacecraft designed for human travel has ever gone. Currently, this mission is uncrewed. But, Artemis II, III, and beyond will hopefully be…

  • These Earth and Moon Pics From NASA Artemis 1 Are Must-Sees

    These Earth and Moon Pics From NASA Artemis 1 Are Must-Sees

    After four failed attempts, NASA’s Artemis 1 departed the Earth at last on November 16 with Orion in tow, a small spacecraft designed to travel a record-breaking 40,000 miles past the Moon into the endless blackness of space. And rather than keep all the excitement to themselves, NASA has kept…

  • The Moon Pulls Off Incredible Photobomb on the Sun in Space Satellite Pic

    The Moon Pulls Off Incredible Photobomb on the Sun in Space Satellite Pic

    A space satellite captured something amazing recently…something we could call the ultimate photobomb. This jaw-dropping moment happened earlier this week as the Earth’s moon passes in front of the sun. This, of course, resulted in a stunning eclipse as the moon blocked the sun’s blazing surface with a shadowy silhouette. However, the…

  • NASA Uses New Technology to Turn Black Hole ‘Light Echoes’ into Creepy Music

    NASA Uses New Technology to Turn Black Hole ‘Light Echoes’ into Creepy Music

    Recently, NASA created its own kind of soundscape using “light echoes” escaping from a black hole. And it’s as soothing as it is creepy. NASA shared the euphony on Instagram, giving listeners a taste of the softer side of the ungiving, gravitational force. “Black holes are notorious for not letting…

  • NASA Releases Breathtaking New Photos of the Moon’s Surface

    NASA Releases Breathtaking New Photos of the Moon’s Surface

    NASA‘s Artemis mission completed its turn around the Moon recently, and the Orion spacecraft onboard captured some stunning photos of the Moon from orbit. Previously, Orion sent back images of the Earth from about 230,000 miles away, as well as a look at the Earth during liftoff. It resembles a…