A dramatic photograph from Intuitive Machines’ Athena moon lander shows it touched down Thursday in a crater near the lunar south pole and tipped over on its side. Given a low sun angle and the orientation of the lander’s solar cells, the spacecraft’s battery quickly drained, bringing the mission to an early end, company officials…
Eight days after launch, a second commercially built moon lander, this one built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, is poised for touchdown Thursday near the lunar south pole to evaluate the environment where NASA astronauts plan to land in the agency’s Artemis program. Known as Athena, the IM-2 spacecraft was expected to drop out of orbit…
NASA regularly shares pictures captured by its Hubble and James Webb telescopes. And to see space from their perspectives is a delight to say the least. Here are 10 most beautiful images captured by the Hubble. Source link
A little over a month after a civilian jet broke the sound barrier, Boom Supersonic and NASA have released a photo of one of the aircraft’s historic test flights over the Mojave Desert. The image released Monday shows the XB-1 aircraft, which Boom Supersonic said is the “first civil supersonic jet made in America,” during its second…
The Moon is set to become a hub of activity this year, with three of robotic spacecraft on their way to attempt landings on its surface. The first of these, Firefly Aerospace‘s Blue Ghost lunar lander, is scheduled to make history by landing on the Moon on Sunday, March 2, 2025. This mission marks a…
Neil deGrasse Tyson on 2032 asteroid collision Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses 2032 asteroid collision 05:14 A so-called “city killer” asteroid scientists have been monitoring after discovering it had a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032 “no longer poses a significant threat,” NASA said in its latest analysis. The 2024 YR4 asteroid, which is…
Melbourne: NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made. The SPHEREx telescope is relatively small but will provide a humongous amount of knowledge in its short two-year mission. It is an infrared telescope designed to take spectroscopic images – ones that measure…
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.28% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — though at one point earlier its estimate reached as high as 3.1%. Such an impact, if it occurred, would have the potential for city-level devastation, depending on where it strikes. …
NASA has identified an asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, with a 3.1% chance of striking Earth on December 22, 2032, marking the most significant impact risk ever recorded by modern forecasting. While the probability has raised global attention, experts assure the public that there is no immediate cause for alarm as space agencies worldwide continue to…
An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday to have roughly a 3% chance of striking our planet — the highest probability ever assigned — before additional analysis Wednesday lowered the chances to about 1.5%, according to NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies. Risks of the massive space…
