This event was part of China’s Shenzhou 19 mission, which comprises three crew members, and occurred from late Monday night into Tuesday morning, as reported by officials from the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO). The duo of astronauts set a new record, surpassing the previous mark of eight hours and 56 minutes established by […]
The breathtaking photo released by NASA has left social media users in awe of its flaming red colors and spider-like structure. Set against a starry sky, the image displays eye-catching orange waves of heated gas surrounding a luminous pinkish center that resembles the curved legs of a black widow spider. “The Red Spider Nebula harbors […]
NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams blasted off for the ISS on Starliner on June 5 for what was meant to be an eight-day stay. But their return has been delayed by thruster malfunctions that came to light during the first crewed mission to the ISS by the Boeing spacecraft. NASA officials, […]
Starship’s controlled plunge into the Indian Ocean just 65 minutes after launching from Texas capped the latest advance in the company’s test-to-failure rocket development campaign, a multibillion-dollar effort by Elon Musk’s space company to build a reusable satellite launcher and moon lander. The three previous test missions ended with Starship blowing up or disintegrating. The […]
Earlier this year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Terra satellite spotted an amazing sight above the Gulf of Mexico: clouds that looked like enormous holes punched out in the sky. Since the 1940s, onlookers have been perplexed by this unusual occurrence, known as cavum clouds, which frequently prompts analogies to flying saucers or […]
You should get in touch with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) if you are willing to spend a year imprisoned in an artificial Martian environment. Gizmodo reports that the US space agency is willing to pay volunteers for the second iteration of the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog (CHAPEA), which is set […]
Launched by NASA in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe is on a revolutionary journey to study the Sun, which will culminate on December 24, 2019, with a historic flyby. The probe will reach 6.1 million kilometers, or 3.8 million miles, from the Sun’s surface while traveling at an incredible speed of 195 km/s, or 435,000 […]
Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan’s record flooding show how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a 100 kilometer-wide inland lake. Swaths of the country are now underwater, and it is described as a “monsoon on steroids” brought the heaviest rainfall in living memory and flooding […]
WASHINGTON: The US space probe Osiris-Rex on Monday left the orbit of the asteroid Bennu; from which it collected dust samples last year, to begin its long journey back to Earth. The probe still has a vast distance to cover before it lands in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023. Osiris-Rex is “now moving […]
The idea of the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, or LCRT, has been in development for ages. The project just received a $500,000 boost upon entering the second phase of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program. The lunar telescope would involve robots hanging wire mesh within a crater on the moon’s far side to create a radio […]
