Ingenuity marks another successful flight on Mars! The new milestone has been reached on Thursday (April 22) morning, and NASA revealed all the details. Just days after its first success, the Mars helicopter completed another flight, this time putting on ...
Earth has now quite the sneaky neighbour, and astronomers have all the details. A tiny black hole, approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth, in the Monoceros constellation, it’s excitingly close by. As per astronomers’ calculations, we have nothing to worry about, ...
Space has sent to our planet a rare isotope of iron for the last 33,000 years. This thing is intriguing yet curious, mainly because scientists found radioactive dust underneath the ocean waves. That indicates how Earth is travelling through a ...
It’s a success! NASA’s Mars helicopter took its first flight, and we have proof. The Perseverance rover, which carried Ingenuity, captured the whole event in an incredible video. The historic flight on our planetary neighbour tool place at 3:34 AM ...
The first complete look of Venus’ dust ring is now available thanks to the Parker Solar Probe. The images show our planetary neighbour’s dust ring for almost its entire 360-degree span around the Sun. Venus’ orbital dust ring is an ...
Interstellar space is one of the most intriguing subjects for astronomers. We still know little about what lies there or beyond it. However, bits of interstellar space reached our Solar System. With that in mind, NASA decided to develop a ...
A recently discovered asteroid approximately the size of a car flew harmlessly by Earth in the morning of April 12. Astronomers figured out that the asteroid, known as 2021 GW4, is approximately 14 feet (4 meters) across – too small ...
Sad news about the InSight Mars lander! NASA just announced that the lander is now in an energy crisis. InSight detected so far over 500 marsquakes and 10,000 dust devils on the Red Planet. The mission was ambitious, and it ...
Annually, 5,200 tons of extraterrestrial dust reaches Earth, as per new research. This delicate yet harsh rain of bits of asteroids and other cosmic features far outweighs bigger meteorites that hit our planet. Despite such an enormous amount, it’s still ...
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 ...