NASA’s latest spacecraft, dubbed Lucy, will pass by Earth on its way to the distant Jupiter Trojan asteroids, passing only a few hundred miles away from us. According to NASA, some fortunate viewers may be able to see Lucy from ...
As part of its incredible efforts to establish a regular cycle of moon landings, NASA is looking for concepts for developing and demonstrating lunar landers. Therefore, the space agency is getting ready to launch Artemis missions to send people again ...
Massive networks of satellites are being launched, making it more challenging to acquire a clear glimpse of the universe. These fast-moving, low-orbiting spacecraft create brilliant streaks in telescope photographs. The International Astronomical Union is developing a new center to concentrate ...
NASA has said that it intends to decommission the International Space Station in 2031 by crashing it into an uninhabited section of the Pacific Ocean. Satellites, like every other technology, do not endure forever. Whether their mission is to watch ...
The NASA TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission just discovered something significant: our own sun is remarkably well-behaved in comparison to its counterparts elsewhere in the cosmos. (Image courtesy of NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory and Getty Images.) According to Universe Today, ...
A new study by a biologist at the Université de Montréal aims to explain how squirrels save energy while hibernating and what implications this knowledge may carry for the future of space flight. Matthew Regan’s study of the thirteen-lined ground ...
NASA’s Juno enrolled in what seemed to be one of the most daring space missions: exploring Ganymede. Massive, heavily cratered, and grey, Jupiter’s largest moon unfolded in front of Juno’s eyes, unveiling a shocking aspect. How did Juno succeed to ...
The Sun is perpetually bubbling and bursting thanks to its activity. If the surface eruptions are big enough, they can send billions of tons of plasma and charged particles towards our planet, according to Sciencealert. To analyze those sorts of ...
A satellite’s mission is never over. Old satellites can continue their work thanks to robotic spacecraft such as MEV-2 (the Mission Extension Vehicle-2). Will this industry of life-extension services for dying or errant satellites work? According to Northrop Grumman, MEV-2 ...