Britain’s first man on the moon? Tim Peake reveals he is ‘still in frame’ for NASA’s second lunar space mission Peake would become the first British person to set foot on the moon if chosen NASA’s Artemis programme will land on the moon for the first time since 1972 The space organisation plans to land the … Read more
Stunning images taken from the historic OSIRIS-REx mission show the moment the spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Bennu more than 200 million miles away from Earth to collect a sample of dirt and dust Tuesday night. On Wednesday NASA unveiled videos and images showing the moment the spacecraft pulled off the six-second touch-and-go (TAG) … Read more
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is getting ready to reach out its robotic arm and collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu’s surface on Tuesday evening. As of 5pm Tuesday EST the spacecraft was activating its sensors and instruments as it further descended into the orbit of the asteroid that contains material from the early solar system … Read more
NASA prepares for historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu with OSIRIS-REX mission where its robotic arm will collect rock samples during brief contact before launching back into space NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is getting ready to reach out its robotic arm and collect a sample from the asteroid Bennu’s surface Tuesday evening As of 5pm Tuesday EST … Read more
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures a stunning image of powerful blast wave from a dying star 2,400 light-years from Earth NASA shared the image of the supernova blast wave remnant taken by Hubble What is seen in the image is the very outer edge of a giant supernova blast wave It happened some 20,000 years … Read more
NASA’s 56-year-old satellite that weighs more than 1,000 POUNDS is set to fall into the South Pacific this weekend – but experts say it will burn up before hitting the ocean One of NASA’s satellites is set to fall back to Earth on Saturday at 5:01pm ET Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 1 has been in space … Read more
NASA shares image of red cyclones swirling on Jupiter’s North Pole – but the internet says the planet looks like a ‘pepperoni pizza’ NASA shared an image captured by Juno of cyclones swirling on Jupiter The image shows swirls of red and yellow at the planet’s North Pole The agency shared it on Instagram and … Read more
Rock and soil taken from Mars by NASA’s Perseverance rover in the search for ancient microbial Martian life will be selected by UK researchers. Scientists at Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum will help Perseverance select the Martian samples, which will eventually be brought back to Earth for scientific study. Perseverance blasts off from Florida … Read more
NASA is set to fly where no one has flown before – Mars’ atmosphere. The American space agency is gearing up to launch its Perseverance rover along with a terrestrial helicopter this summer that will soar through the layers of gas that hang over the Red Planet. Named Ingenuity, the copter will fly at an … Read more
A galaxy far, far away! NASA’s New Horizons travels 4.3 billion miles to perform the first interstellar ‘parallax’ experiment that shows stars are positioned differently in space than when viewed from Earth NASA’s New Horizons performed the first interstellar ‘parallax’ experiment It snapped images 4.3 billion miles from Earth of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 Due … Read more