NASA’s head of human spaceflight quit on Monday, just days before the first commercial mission to take astronauts to the International Space Station. Elon Musk’s SpaceX will become the first commercial company to fly astronauts to the ISS in a flight that will also be the first from US soil since 2011. Doug Loverro, who … Read more
NASA Insight rover’s ‘Mole’ is finally making progress burrowing into the ground on Mars after months struggling to penetrate beyond the surface NASA’s new approach of using InSight’s robotic arm to push the mole ‘appears to be working’ NASA has said The 16-inch-long probe known as ‘the Mole’ aims to measure the heat coming from the Red … Read more
An elusive mid-sized black hole that was tearing apart a wayward star has been spotted by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. A team of astronomers found the stellar object – known as an ‘intermediate-mass black hole’ – 740 million light-years away using Hubble and X-ray observatories. Experts from the University of New Hampshire in … Read more
The location where NASA plans to land its rover on Mars could hold signs of ancient microbial life. Scientists are set to investigate the Jezero crater in the Mars 2020 mission, which was home to a lake 3.5 billion years ago and is littered with carbonates and hydrated silica. Carbonates located in the crater’s inner rim … Read more
With at least 164 countries around the world battling coronavirus, there seems to be only one place that has not been infected –the International Space Station (ISS). NASA has a strategy in place to prevent astronauts from carrying potentially dangerous viruses and pathogens to the ISS known as ‘health stabilization.’ Crews heading to the ISS … Read more
Giant volcanic eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io have been spotted by NASA’s Juno probe. On Dec. 21, during winter solstice, four of Juno’s cameras captured images of the Jovian moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system, on the mission’s 17th flyby of the gas giant. Stunned researchers say they hit the jackpot by … Read more
Unexpected technical complications will keep NASA’s Lunar Gateway from being fully operational by 2024 and delay the agency’s larger plans for a permanent moon base NASA’s ambitious plans for a lunar base will likely be delayed by at least a year The agency encountered technical complications with the space station, called the Lunar Gateway, intended … Read more