The United States has not landed a man on the moon since 1972, but that hiatus looks likely to end in the coming years. NASA’s Artemis program looks to surpass the heights achieved with the Apollo missions to the lunar surface in the 1960s and 1970s. Artemis I, an unmanned test mission to the moon, […]
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Delivery truck size asteriod to whip by Earth tonight
An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such encounters ever recorded. NASA insists it will be a near miss with no chance of the asteroid hitting Earth. The U.S. space agency said Wednesday that this newly discovered asteroid will zoom 3,600 kilometres above […]
The Artemis moon rocket launch is ready, Again
NASA is once again counting down the hours to the first flight test of its new 32-story-tall Artemis rocket, the one the agency hopes will carry astronauts back to the moon in just a few years. The space agency has been struggling to get the multi-billion-dollar rocket off the ground so that it can send […]
Artemis I mission lifts off to the moon Monday
For the first time in 50 years, a spacecraft is preparing to launch on a journey to the moon. The uncrewed Artemis I mission, including the Space Launch System Rocket and Orion spacecraft, is targeting liftoff on August 29 between 8:33 a.m. ET and 10:33 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Although […]
Webb telescope images of Jupiter are amazing
Rainbow auroras, giant storms and far-off galaxies are all on display in the latest images of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. “We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to be honest,” said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, in a news release. De Pater […]
NASA Condemns China’s Irresponsible Rocket Launch
NASA rebuked China for failing to meet responsible spacefaring standards after remnants of the nation’s rogue Long March 5B rocket landed in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives early Sunday. Sightings of the Chinese rocket debris reentering Earth’s atmosphere and scorching across the pre-dawn skies were reported in Jordan, Oman and Saudi Arabia. “It is […]
2016 Hottest Year On Record For 3rd Straight Year
The heat extremes were especially pervasive in the Arctic, with temperatures in the fall running 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large stretches of the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice in that region has been in precipitous decline for years, and Arctic communities are already wrestling with enormous problems, such as rapid coastal erosion, […]
Nasa makes entire research library open to public
NASA is opening up its research library to the public in the newly launched web database PubSpace…and it’s absolutely free. NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan believes that this move will benefit fellow scientists and engineers and accelerate innovation. “Making our research data easier to access will greatly magnify the impact of our research,” she said. […]
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“People To Live On Mars” says Obama
For years, President Obama has been saying the U.S. must send humans to Mars. Permanently. There was the 2010 speech when he said, “By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to […]