Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos. | Photo Credit: Reuters When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object’s trajectory, if needed, to protect Earth. It turns outRead More →
Private US moon lander still working after breaking leg and falling. | Photo Credit: AP The first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon broke a leg at touchdown before falling over, according to company officials who said Wednesday it was on the verge of losing power. Intuitive Machines,Read More →
January 08, 2024 11:37 pm | Updated January 09, 2024 05:16 am IST – CAPE CANAVERAL, U.S.A. The first U.S. moon landing in more than 50 years appeared to be doomed after a private company’s spacecraft developed a “critical” fuel leak just hours after Monday’s launch. Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology managedRead More →
The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 4, 2018. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia’s space state agency Roscosmos said on Thursday that a cross-flight programme with NASA to the International Space Station (ISS) had been extended until 2025, InterfaxRead More →
A worker of Ariane Group stands in front of a Ariane 6 rocket’s Vulcain 2.1 engine, prior to the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron, in Vernon, France January 12, 2021. | Photo Credit: Reuters Europe’s Ariane 6 launcher has passed a key rehearsal in preparation for its first flight,Read More →
The afterglow of a massive collision between two giant planets may have been detected for the first time. The wreckage of the collision could eventually cool and form an entirely new planet. If the observation is confirmed, it provides an amazing opportunity to watch the birth of a new worldRead More →
NASA has said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP. | Photo Credit: AP NASA on Thursday said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP, while the U.S.Read More →
This file computer-generated image released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on April 15, 2008 shows trackable objects in orbit around Earth. – The United States said November 8, 2021 it was investigating a “debris-generating event in outer space” after astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to prepareRead More →
The sun as seen by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft in extreme ultraviolet light in this mosaic of 25 individual images taken on March 7, 2023, by the high-resolution telescope of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument. Taken at a wavelength of 17 nanometers, in the extreme ultraviolet region of theRead More →
A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 shows the Zeeman crater located on the far side of the moon, August 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia’s lunar spacecraft entered the moon’s orbit on Wednesday, a major step towards the country’s ambition of being theRead More →
