Apr 28 2024
A massive asteroid, almost the size of the tallest building on Earth, is heading for the planet in mid-December, as per NASA’s asteroid tracker. Designated 163899 (2003 SD220), the massive asteroid has a diameter of approximately 791 meters, nearly the […]
After 40 years with NASA and three years as its chief scientist, Jim Green has retired from the agency. Green, who joined NASA in 1980 spent 12 years as the director of the agency’s planetary science division and helped it […]
The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on the launchpad. The space observatory, safely tucked inside an Ariane 5 rocket, is expected to launch on December 25. The rollout took about two hours to complete, according to NASA. Arianespace’s Ariane […]
Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth, scientists have determined that the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu is a pristine remnant from the formation of our solar system. This was the […]
Scientists believe Venus could be harbouring alien lifeforms. The planet, which sits a casual 47 million kilometres from us in our solar system, has ammonia in its upper atmosphere. Researchers have reportedly been fixated on why Venus’ atmosphere contains the […]
Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to “touch the sun.” The Parker Solar Probe has successfully flown through the sun’s corona, or upper atmosphere, […]
DUBAI: Emirates Post Group (EPG) recently launched the “Postcards to Space” initiative in partnership with “Club for the Future”, a private foundation established by Blue Origin, “UAE Space Agency”, “Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre” (MBRSC), and “AzurX”. The initiative, which […]
An astronaut’s eyes can change during spaceflights that last six months or more. That could be a problem for future planned missions. After decades of research, scientists may have a seemingly unlikely solution: a sleeping bag, developed in conjunction with […]
A rover that landed on the far side of the moon has been sent to investigate a peculiar object on its visible horizon. The far side of the moon has relatively few flat areas, however, the rover noticed that this […]
The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. But the true test for this asteroid deflection technology will come in September 2022, when the […]
FLORIDA: SpaceX founder Elon Musk that his company will attempt to launch its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship to orbit in January, but he’s not betting on success for that first test flight. “There’s a lot of risk associated with this first […]
