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Citizen Scientists Aid NASA: Unlocking Solar Mysteries in 2024 Total Eclipse

Nasa Solar Eclipse 2024 Citizen Scientists

When people witness a total solar eclipse from within the path of totality, they become captivated by the awe-inspiring beauty of the sun’s corona. This is the only time when it is visible to the naked eye and can be captured in photographs. However, there is another layer known as the chromosphere that becomes visible […]

NASA Observes Stadium-sized Asteroid Near Earth: A Threat or Safe Passage?

Nasa Spots Stadium Sized Asteroid Near Earth

According to Interesting Engineering, Nasa’s Deep Space Network planetary radar has released the initial detailed images of the large asteroid named 2008 OS7. The asteroid, which flew by Earth on February 2, was not a threat as it was orbiting at a safe distance of 1.8 million miles (2.9 million km), about 7 ½ times […]

Join NASA’s Mars Habitat Simulation: Your Ultimate Guide to Apply

Join NASA's Mars Habitat Simulation

If you think you have the right stuff to be a Martian settler, NASA wants to hear from you. The agency is searching for four ambitious explorers to participate in an immersive, year-long simulation of life on Mars. The selected crew will live and work inside Mars Dune Alpha, a state-of-the-art habitat at Johnson Space […]

Artemis Delays: NASA Pushes Human Moon Landing to 2026

Artemis Delays

NASA announced today that its plans to launch the highly anticipated Artemis II mission this year have been pushed back, with the new target launch window now being September 2025 at the earliest. This delay of the uncrewed flight test around the Moon will have a ripple effect, pushing back subsequent crewed Artemis missions, including […]

NASA Astronauts Test Moon Elevator for 2025 Artemis III Mission

Artemis III Mission

NASA continues extensive preparations across multiple fronts for the much-anticipated Artemis III mission, which aims to finally land the first woman and person of color on the lunar surface for the first time since the last human moon landing in 1972. Targeted for launch in 2025, the ambitious moon mission still has several key hurdles […]

NASA’s Lucy Finds Mini Moon Orbiting Asteroid

NASA Lucy Finds Mini Moon Orbiting Asteroid

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft stumbled upon an unexpected bonus find during its recent flyby of the asteroid Dinkinesh. New images confirmed Dinkinesh is not one lone asteroid, but actually two asteroids – a larger 790m asteroid orbited by a smaller 220m “moon.” The chance double asteroid detection has scientists excited about Lucy’s capabilities and future asteroid […]

NASA Shares Eerie Playlist of Sounds from Across the Solar System and Beyond

NASA Releases Playlist of Sounds from Solar System and Galaxy

NASA has compiled an intriguing sonification playlist featuring sounds captured from various objects in our solar system and the surrounding universe. By converting electromagnetic data from telescopes and space probes into audio, the recordings offer an auditory glimpse into the often silent expanse of space. The playlist contains eerie, otherworldly sounds from Mercury, Jupiter, Mars, […]

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Smashes Speed Record in Latest Daring Sun Flyby

Parker Solar Probe Breaks Speed Record Sun Flyby

NASA’s daring Parker Solar Probe broke its own speed record during a recent extremely close flyby of the Sun, aided by gravity assists from Venus. On September 27th, Parker reached about 395,000 mph, beating its previous high of ~365,000 mph from November 2021. It also set a new solar proximity record. Harnessing Venus Gravity to […]

Prada to Design NASA’s New Spacesuits for Artemis III Moon Mission

Prada to Design NASA New Spacesuits

Prada, an Italian luxury fashion business, has announced a collaboration with Axiom Space to design and develop NASA’s next generation lunar spacesuits for the forthcoming Artemis III Moon mission in 2025. The premium fashion business stated in a joint statement that its engineers will collaborate with Axiom’s Space Systems team to design and develop the […]

NASA Confirms Summer 2023 Hottest on Record, With More Heat Waves to Come

NASA Confirms Summer 2023 Hottest on Record

Summer 2023 has etched itself into the record books as the hottest period on Earth since temperature tracking began in 1880, according to NASA. The sweltering heat waves that swept across Asia, Europe, North America, and beyond have left no room for doubt. This scorching milestone in 2023 is a direct consequence of global warming, […]

Largest Asteroid to Pass Earth This Week Is About the Size of a Plane

Largest Asteroid to Pass Earth This Week

This week, Earth will be visited by five asteroids, the largest of which is around the size of a plane. According to NASA, they will all most likely go harmlessly past our globe. According to NASA’s Asteroid Watch database, the five asteroids, the smallest of which is the size of a bus, are skimming across […]

SpaceX Dragon Capsule Brings 4 Astronauts Back to Earth After Six Months in Space

Spacex Dragon Capsule Brings 4 Astronauts

A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying a four-person crew returning from the International Space Station raced through the sky over Florida and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean early Monday, bringing the company’s first commercial crew contract with NASA to a close. However, SpaceX has at least eight more space station crew rotation missions under contract […]