Organisms found in NASA’s clean rooms may have already contaminated Mars, scientist warns

NASA is eyeing the 2030s to put the first human boots on Mars, but a scientist suggests the American space agency may have already sent forms of life aboard its Perseverance rover to the Red Planet. Christopher Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medicine, suggests that although NASA takes extreme measures to clean spacecraft and … Read more

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission begins its 1.4 billion mile journey home from asteroid Bennu

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has embarked on its 1.4 billion-mile journey back to Earth after spending two years on asteroid Bennu.  OSIRIS-REx (the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) was the first NASA mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid, survey the surface, and collect a sample to deliver to Earth.  The craft is carrying … Read more

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will leave asteroid Bennu TODAY

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission will leave asteroid Bennu today and begin its 1.4 billion mile, two year long journey back to the Earth, the space agency confirmed.    OSIRIS-REx (the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) was the first NASA mission to visit a near-Earth asteroid, survey the surface, and collect a sample to deliver to … Read more

NASA’s Voyager-1 sends back data of the ‘hum’ of interstellar gas from 14 BILLION miles away 

NASA’s Voyager-1 spacecraft, travelling outside the solar system, has sent back new data revealing a ‘hum’ given off by interstellar gas 14 billion miles from the Earth.  The spacecraft, currently further away from the Earth than any human-made object before it, launched 44 years ago to study the gas giants of the outer solar system. … Read more

NASA’s Ingenuity completes FOURTH flight on Mars that was ‘farther and faster than ever before’

NASA announced Friday that Ingenuity successfully completed its fourth flight, which saw the small helicopter ‘fly farther and faster than ever before.’ The $85 million drone traveled 872 feet (266 meters) at a height of 16 feet (5 meters) for two minutes. The American space agency received the data downlink at 1:39pm ET that showed the … Read more

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin challenges NASA’s $2.9billion contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Elon Musk trolled his fellow multibillionaire Jeff Bezos on Monday, joking that he ‘can’t get it up (to orbit)’ after the Amazon founder’s space company filed a protest against NASA for picking rival SpaceX to build a lunar lander. Blue Origin, the Bezos’-owned space exploration company, filed a protest with the federal Government Accountability Office … Read more

‘Nothing short of amazing!’ NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completes its third flight 

NASA’s mini helicopter Ingenuity on Sunday successfully completed its third flight on Mars, travelling even farther and hitting a peak speed of 4.5mph – four times faster than before.  After two initial flights during which the craft hovered above the Red Planet’s surface, the helicopter on this third flight covered 64ft of distance, rising 16ft … Read more

‘Nothing short of amazing!’ NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully completes its third flight 

NASA’s mini helicopter Ingenuity on Sunday successfully completed its third flight on Mars, travelling even farther and hitting a peak speed of 4.5mph – four times faster than before.  After two initial flights during which the craft hovered above the Red Planet’s surface, the helicopter on this third flight covered 64ft of distance, rising 16ft … Read more

NASA’s Mars helicopter ‘went big’ for its second flight on Mars

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter ‘went big’ with its second flight, reaching new milestones with a higher altitude, flying to the side and grabbing another black-and-white photo of its shadow on the ground below.  The US space agency said it climbed up to 16ft above the surface, hovered, tilted slightly and then moved sideways 7ft. When … Read more

NASA’s Perseverance and Ingenuity snap a selfie as the copter prepares for its first flight on Mars

‘Until we meet again’: The Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter snap a selfie as the copter prepares for its first flight on Mars that is compared to the ‘Wright Brothers’ moment on Earth NASA released an image snapped by Perseverance with Ingenuity on Mars The rover used its onboard camera to snap the selfie of … Read more