The first asteroid to be visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has finally been given a name. The asteroid was discovered in 1999. However, like millions of other main belt asteroids, it was given only a number to designate. And even then, only when its orbit was accurately determined. Generated by...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA announced the latest news about the Parker Solar Probe. One of the instruments on the spacecraft went offline last weekend. Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve GribbenThe shutdown of an energy particle instrument called EPI-Hi (Energistic Particle Instrument-Hi) occurred on February 12, 2023, when a...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has marked an important milestone in the activity of the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet. The rover has already worked for two years on Mars and successfully continues its activities. The bottom of the Lake crater taken on February 5, 2023. Photo:...
The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA has launched a new MarsXR 2 project, in which ordinary users can take part and help prepare astronauts for life on the Red Planet. Illustration: HeroXThe project was created in collaboration with the HeroX platform, as well as with Epic Games and the...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released the latest news about the 25-kilogram Capstone satellite the size of a microwave oven. Engineers battled for almost two weeks with a lunar probe refusing to respond to commands. Illustration: NASA/Daniel RutterCapstone hasn’t received a message from Earth for 11 days....
The American space agency NASA shared a fresh discovery made by the NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) space observatory. Although the observatory usually studies objects outside the solar system, such as massive black holes and imploded stars, it has also provided astronomers with information about our Sun. According to the...
The US space agency NASA has shared the latest news about the miniature satellite Lunar Flashlight (“Moon Flashlight”). On the way to the moon, the probe had problems, the mission team had to change their plans. Illustration: NASALunar Flashlight was launched in December 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket....
The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA shared news about the operation of the Juno automatic interplanetary station (Juno) near Jupiter. NASA’s Juno spacecraft was launched in 2011. He flew to Jupiter in 2016; since then, the station has made nearly 50 flybys of the largest planet in the solar...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA boasts an intriguing new find on the surface of the Red Planet. The photo was taken on December 12, 2022 by the NASA MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) multifunctional automatic interplanetary station using the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment) camera. The picture shows a...
The American Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA shared news about the achievements of the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet. The rover is littered with various weather sensors, collectively referred to as MEDA (Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer). Scientists have published a MEDA report on the weather for the first 250...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared the latest news on the James Webb Space Telescope. The orbital observatory is now experiencing its second hardware failure. According to the management, the NIRISS (Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph) device experienced a communication delay, which disabled the internal software....
The American space agency NASA has shared news about the Lunar Flashlight project (“Lunar flashlight”). According to the press service, the satellite’s engines had a problem. The miniature satellite was launched about a month ago on a mission to search for water ice on the Moon. The probe was also...
NASA space agency has found another planet the size of Earth. It is 100 light years away and orbits a red dwarf called TOI 700. The planet was discovered using data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), it is called TOI 700 d. This satellite has been in space...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared interesting news on its lunar program. Technicians opened the hatch of the Orion spacecraft after the completion of the Artemis 1 lunar mission. In this photo, a technician is standing inside the crew module to remove the payload and assess the...
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared the latest news on the James Webb Space Telescope. Researchers have been able to confirm the presence of an exoplanet for the first time using data obtained by James Webb. The planet LHS 475 b is almost the same size as...
NASA announced that launched on October 5, 1984 and already disabled, the ERBS satellite (Earth Radiation Budget Satellite, Earth Radiation Balance Satellite) will return to Earth today, January 8. It is expected to burn up almost entirely in the atmosphere. And although some parts of the ERBS can survive during...