Four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) Monday evening, but one of them has made history following the 27 hour journey. NASA astronaut Victor Glover is the first black person to live on the orbiting lab for an extended stay – he will call the massive ship home for the next six months. … Read more
The four astronauts set to soar to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 will be spending an extra day on Earth. The Crew-1 mission, which was slated for Saturday, has been pushed to Sunday due to poor weather that could interfere with rocket recovery operations – although conditions are 60 percent favorable for … Read more
Four astronauts are set to board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday for a trip to the International Space Station, and the team has completed a dress rehearsal leading up to the historical launch. The astronauts, named Crew-1, took the walk through Kennedy Space Center as did Ben Behnken and … Read more
NASA’s Hubble telescope spots the ‘Greater Pumpkin’ galaxies 120 MILLION light-years from Earth, complete with glowing eyes and a carved crooked smile NASA’s Hubble telescope captured a spooky scene 120 million light-years away Deemed the ‘Greater Pumpkin’, the image is of two galaxies colliding The aging red stars are creating an orange hue that resembles … Read more
‘Next stop, Jezero Crater’: NASA’s Perseverance rover hits the halfway mark of its 314 million mile journey to Mars where it will search for signs of life NASA launched the Perseverance rover to Mars on July 30 at 7:50am ET The craft carrying the rover has hit the halfway mark from Earth to Mars The … Read more
NASA‘s Juno spacecraft has captured electric blue ‘sprites’ and ‘elves’ dancing in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Such transient luminous events occur on Earth during a thunderstorm, but these are the first to be observed on another world. The bright, unpredictable flashes of lights typically form on our planet about 60 miles above large thunderstorms, creating flares that … Read more
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 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 200 million miles away from Earth Tuesday evening … 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