NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover stores rock and soil samples in sealed tubes on the planet’s surface for future missions to retrieve, as seen in this illustration. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Enclosed with any rock and soil samples collected from NASAThe Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists. NASA persistence March The rover is collecting samples … Read more
In this image of the Serpentine Nebula from the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found a cluster of protostellar outflows lined up within a small region (upper left corner). In Webb’s image, these jets are signified by bright clustered streaks that appear red, which are shock waves from the … Read more
Boeing and NASA are once again “fixing” the return home of two astronauts from the International Space Station with the Starliner spacecraft. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were scheduled to stay on the ISS for just one week after docking there on June 6. They are now not expected to make the trip back to … Read more
Is humanity prepared to face an asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting Earth in 14 years? Scientists and experts say there is work to be done. When NASA presented the hypothetical scenario, drawn up by the Planetary Defense Coordination Office, to a group of nearly 100 government representatives, they discovered that their plan to … Read more
Astronomers are witnessing a spectacle never before seen in the cosmos: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. In late 2019, a team of astronomers spotted an unusual galaxy called SDSS1335+0728, 300 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. A sudden bump in the galaxy’s brightness was automatically … Read more
A spacewalk by two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station ended almost as soon as it began Monday morning when water began leaking from one of the spacesuits into the airlock. “There’s water everywhere,” said Tracy Dyson, one of the astronauts, at mission control. That was minutes after she and Mike Barratt, the other … Read more
NASA has delayed the return of two astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS) for the third time, raising concerns that the crew could become ‘stuck’. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were originally scheduled for a nine-day stint, which was postponed twice this month and now sits on an unspecified date. The extended stay will … Read more
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Attorney Mica Nguyen Worthy is suing NASA on behalf of Florida homeowner Alejandro Otero and his family to recover damages after space debris struck their family home in early March, according to law firm Cranfill Sumner where Worthy is a partner. On March 8, a piece of space debris crashed into the roof of … Read more
The night sky may be on the verge of gaining a brand new star in a few weeks. T Coronae Borealis, also known as “The Blazing Star” or T CrB, is a binary star system located about 3,000 light-years from Earth. It will explode in spectacular fashion any day now. Usually too faint to see … Read more