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 […]
NASA miniature Robot Helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars Early on Monday; achieving the 1st Powered, controlled Flight by an Aircraft over the surface of another World, the US 🇺🇸 Space agency said. NASA Expects to receive images and videos of the Flight that mission Engineers hope to capture using cameras […]
NASA’s “Perseverance” rover, announced its landing on Martian soil through its official Twitter account which stated: “Hello, world. My first look at my forever home,” the robot “Perseverance”, left Cabo Cañaveral (Florida) 6 months ago with the purpose of studying, searching, and collecting past traces of life in the neighboring planet. Hello, world. My first […]
An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft on Wednesday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Earth, China’s space agency said, in the country’s first independent mission to the red planet. The robotic probe carried out a 15-minute burn of its thrusters at 7:52pm Beijing time (5:22pm IST); the China National Space Administration said in […]