Tag: space
NASA funds ‘Firefly Aerospace’ to deliver high-tech experiments to lunar surface
Firefly’s first lunar delivery is scheduled to launch no earlier than mid-January 2025
NASA’s plans for sustaining human presence in ‘Low Earth Orbit’
The agency released its final goals and objectives for low Earth orbit, defining the long-term approach toward advancing microgravity science, technology, and exploration for the benefit of all . .
Artemis moon missions delayed
NASA shares Orion heat shield findings, updates Artemis II & Artemis III moon missions
Newly discovered ‘supermassive black hole’ rapidly gobbling up its home galaxy
Astronomers Find Early Fast-Feeding Black Hole Using NASA Telescopes
Tonight! Look up to view August’s Super Moon
(And not just any old Super Moon, but a ‘Supermoon Blue Moon’)
Best times to see the 2024 Perseid meteor shower? Tonight, and tomorrow night!
The spectacular Perseid meteor shower will be lighting up the night sky
Space telescope helping to defend Earth against incoming asteroids and comets has been decommissioned
This concludes more than 10 years of the NEOWISE planetary defense mission
Hubble’s latest gift to mankind: Classic snapshot of a spiral galaxy
detailed snapshot of spiral galaxy NGC 3430, 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor
Exciting discovery: Mars rover accidentally finds rocks made of pure sulfur
Rocks made of pure sulfur (aka ‘elemental sulfur’) have never been seen before on the Red Planet.
Study reveals origin of four-million-year-old ‘potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid’
Researchers describe how the ancient asteroid was ejected from the moon following a massive strike from an even larger ‘impactor’ that left an crater on the lunar surface measuring 14-miles wide in diameter.
