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In 2029 the asteroid once considered the most probable to strike the Earth will fly uncomfortably close to the planet’s surface. Spanning 335-375m, asteroid 99942 – dubbed ‘Apophis’ after the Egyptian god of chaos – was discovered in 2004 by astronomers from the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. Initially, it was assessed as […]

When NASA returns to the Moon, its astronauts will enjoy tooling around in a pressurized camper van courtesy of JAXA and Toyota. The two-person vehicle is part of a US/Japan agreement that includes putting the first Japanese astronauts on the Moon.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: NASA, JAXA, Rover, Moon, Campervan

NASA is gearing up to launch an advanced solar sail spacecraft later this month. Using a new boom made of lightweight polymer composites, the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is scheduled to lift off on April 24.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: NASA, Solar Sail

On Tuesday, Nasa launched its Space Sustainability Strategy, which aims to better map and monitor satellites and debris, and keep orbits as clear as possible.There are currently more than 10,000 satellites orbiting the Earth – a four-fold increase since 2019 – and numbers are set to grow exponentially.Some 400,000 s...

Φρενίτιδα και επιστημονικός «πυρετός» επικρατούν για την επικείμενη ολική έκλειψη που θα είναι ορατή στο Μεξικό, τις ΗΠΑ και τον Καναδά, ελάχιστα στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο και καθόλου στην υπόλοιπη Ευρώπη. Δεκάδες επιστημονικά projects έχουν «χτιστεί» γύρω από αυτή την έκλειψη. Τι τη διαφοροποιεί από άλλες; The post Γιατί τόσος ενθουσιασμός με την ηλιακή έκλειψη της 8ης Απριλίου; appeared first on Protagon.gr.

NASA has selected three companies to develop extreme off-road vehicles that astronauts will drive on the Moon during Artemis missions starting in 2030, awarding US$4.6 billion in contracts to Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: NASA, artemis, Rover, Moon, Space exploration, Lunar, Lunar Lander, Apollo 17

Parts of North America will be dark next week because of a rare celestial phenomenon that will not return for the next few decades. A total solar eclipse is set to take place next Monday, for the first time since 2017, completely blocking off the mask of the sun. What a total solar eclipse is...

Space agency tasked with establishing Coordinated Lunar Time, partly to aid missions requiring extreme precisionThe White House wants Nasa to figure out how to tell time on the moon.A memo sent Tuesday from the head of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has asked the space agency to work with other US agencies and international agencies to establish a moon-centric time...

Published: 12:07 EDT, 2 April 2024 | Updated: 12:52 EDT, 2 April 2024 A piece of metal came crashing through a home in Florida that is believed to be from a 5,800-pound battery pallet discarded by the International Space Station (ISS).Naples homeowner Alejandro Otero was on vacation when he received a call from his ...

Anil Menon is a former SpaceX medical director, flight surgeon, and NASA astronaut. But his hardest job is being a dad to his two young kids.

Astronauts can sometimes up to 8cm after they’ve been in space, and now Australian health specialists are working with NASA to make their work less of a pain in the back. Due to lower gravity in space, astronauts often suffer muscle, bone and back problems. “On Earth, when we are upright, gravity loads the spine […]

Close-up perspective of the woodpecker holes in the External Tank (ET) foam insulation of STS-70. [Photo Credit: NASA]The most unusual, and most humorous, reason for a Space Shuttle launch delay happened with the STS-70 mission in the spring of 1995. The launch had been scheduled for early June but was delayed until...

We might find alien life as soon as 2030, according to a new study. A lab experiment has shown that instruments on a spacecraft headed to one of the most promising worlds to find life are sensitive enough to detect a single living cell in a single ice grain.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Life, Extraterrestrial, Europa, Europa Clipper, NASA, Bacteria, Microbes, University of Washington

In preparation for a permanent human colony on the Moon, DARPA has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to develop a lunar railway concept, as part of the 10-year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: DARPA, NASA, Moon, Northrop Grumman, Railways

What happens when you take a spaceship worth hundreds of millions of dollars, blast it into space and deliberately smash it into an asteroid at speeds of 23,000km/h? Well, as confirmed by NASA last year, you’ll probably take a hefty chunk out of the asteroid. Thanks to the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the […]