Tagged: space

The daring Chang’e 5 mission touched down on the moon in December 2020, drilling down for and scooping up the youngest lunar samples ever collected. Soon after, an ascent vehicle blasted off from the mission’s landing site in Oceanus Procellarum (the Sea of Storms), and...

We now have a date for our first real images from NASA’s next-generation observatory. Following half a year of commissioning in space, NASA will release the first operational images taken by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, according to an agency...

NASA announced Thursday that its Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has calibrated more than 40 “milepost markers” of space and time. The mile markers help scientists measure the expansion rate of the universe and astronomers have found – using data from the HST and other telescopes...

  The Tianzhou 4 freighter docked with the Tianhe core module about 6.5 hours after lifting off. China’s Tianzhou 4 freighter has arrived at its orbital destination. The robotic Tianzhou 4 docked with Tianhe, the core module of China’s under-construction Tiangong space station, on Monday...

About 1,500 flames were ignited on the International Space Station in five years to learn how fire behaves in microgravity Similar to the cult 1981 prehistoric fantasy film, NASA is on its own “Quest for Fire” to better understand how flames work in space. The...

Perseverance’s search for Mars life might strike gold here. NASA’s life-hunting Perseverance Mars rover just reached a big mission milestone. Perseverance has arrived safely at the remains of an ancient Red Planet river delta on the floor of the 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater, NASA...

Skywatchers will finally be able to enjoy the thrill of observing “shooting stars” again this week as the April Lyrids meteor shower arrives after a three-month-long meteor drought. For those who enjoy watching the night sky for the sight of meteors, popularly referred to as...

  The “canyon of fire” is at least 12,400 miles (20,000 kilometers) deep and 10 times as long. Filaments of plasma escaped from a fiery canyon that opened on the sun’s surface on Sunday (April 3) releasing powerful streams of magnetized solar wind that might...

You can spot them Sunday and Monday, before sunrise. You can spot a triangular alignment of three bright worlds Sunday (March 27) and Monday (March 28) in the predawn hours. Involved in this collection of worlds will be cloudy Venus, bright Mars and ringed Saturn....