This photo shows a solar panel on InSight covered in dust on April 24, 2022. Due to decreasing power levels, the mission will end science operations by this summer. It will end completely by 2022’s end. Image via NASA/ ...
CAPTION ELEVATE will bring together development program, partner ecosystem, online marketplace to enable businesses around the world to harness industrial IoT success With more businesses recognising the impact of IoT technologies on their operations and on the world, and ...
View larger. | The Halley Multicolor Camera on ESA’s Giotto spacecraft captured this image of the nucleus of Comet Halley. This image was the Astronomy Picture of the day for January 4, 2010. Comet Halley visited last in 1986 ...
The Mandalorian's cool new starfighter carries a lot of on-screen and off-screen Star Wars history.
The star Arcturus is easy to identify. Use the Big Dipper to follow the arc to Arcturus and drive a spike to Spica. Arcturus is a red giant star located only 37 light-years away. It’s the 4th-brightest star in ...
Illustration of NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) Credit: NASA Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the end of this year. NASA’s ...
The ionosphere is notorious for affecting radio communications.
The mission will sample an asteroid, return to Earth and then head out again to study a second space rock.
The moon shines like a red beacon over the bright city lights.
The Martian dust is relentless. It’s ended the lives of NASA robots before, by blanketing their solar panels. Amassing dust is now diminishing the power of the space agency’s InSight lander, the first robot sent to reveal the ongoings in ...
The massive Jan. 15 eruption of the undersea Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the South Pacific Ocean was a once-in-a-century event that allowed an international group of 76 scientists using multiple forms of technology to crowdsource their data in ...
Four key climate change indicators all set new record highs in 2021, the United Nations said Wednesday, warning that the global energy system was driving humanity towards catastrophe. Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise, ocean heat and ocean acidification ...
The oceans have helped sustain life on Earth for billions of years and will likely continue to do so far into the future. Oceans have an abundance of minerals like calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, and copper, which are essential ...
It turns out that we humans have a lot in common with the stars and galaxies above us. It turns out that we are also made of stuff from these celestial objects, which literally makes us “children of cosmos.” (Photo ...
Boeing Starliner illustration. Credit: Boeing The International Space Station (ISS) is preparing for the targeted arrival of Boeing’s Starliner crew ship on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission. Meanwhile, the Expedition 67 crew is continuing its ongoing life ...
The UN envoy to Iraq on Tuesday urged Iraqi politicians to end a deadlock which has kept parliament from forming a new government for more than seven months, warning that the crisis could spark civil unrest. “The streets are ...
The UN rights chief will be arriving in China “shortly” for a long-anticipated visit, including to the Xinjiang region where authorities stand accused of widespread rights abuses, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. After years of requesting “meaningful and unfettered” access ...
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation (“EO”) data collection, has entered into an agreement with UP42, a geospatial developer platform and marketplace enabling direct access to Satellogic’s satellite tasking high-resolution multispectral and wide-area hyperspectral ...
On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has selected two firms for the Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Atmospheric Composition (ACX) instrument Phase A Study. These firms will provide services to help meet the objectives of ...
Once upon a time, all life on Earth was alien. But eventually, strange single-celled organisms thriving on a harsh planet gave way to complex, multicellular organisms made up of the basic building blocks we associate with life today, including ...
When I was getting into astronomy it was always said that, as summer arrives, the lighter nights make observing sessions rather pointless. What I eventually learnt is that while chasing the dimmest faint fuzzies at the eyepiece might be out ...
Jiangnan Shipyard Group based in China’s financial hub of Shanghai delivers the world’s largest Very Large Ethane Carrier (VLEC), May 16, 2022. /CMG A Shanghai shipyard delivered the world’s largest Very Large Ethane Carrier (VLEC) on Monday. It is ...
The NASA InSight lander, which has been exploring Mars’ enigmatic innards since 2018, is nearing the conclusion of its mission. Kathya Zamora Garcia, InSight deputy project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a CNN report that ...
WASHINGTON — NASA’s InSight Mars lander mission will likely conclude by the end of the year as power levels for the spacecraft continue to decline, project officials confirmed May 17. At a briefing about the mission, which has been ...
An astronaut has captured the recent lunar eclipse observed from the International Space Station (ISS). Samantha Cristoforetti, an astronaut with the European Space Agency (ESA), published three magnificent new space images. From three distinct vantage points, the photographs show the ...
As more rocket propulsion emissions enter the Earth’s atmosphere, space experts at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus warn that pollution continues to grow even after SpaceX, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic have started using reusable rockets for their space ...
At the heart of the Milky Way, a supermassive behemoth lurks. Formed over billions of years from a combination of merging black holes and the infalling matter that grows them, there now sits a mammoth black hole that weighs ...
Tesla Vision’s maximum speed for Autosteer was raised to 85 mph. On May 15, Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla would increase the speed of Autopilot. Tesla started delivering Model 3 and Model Y vehicles with Tesla Vision, its camera-based ...
As NASA moves forward with plans to send astronauts to the Moon under Artemis missions to prepare for human exploration of Mars, the agency is calling on U.S. industry, academia, international communities, and other stakeholders to provide input on ...
Billions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions broke loose on the moon, blanketing hundreds of thousands of square miles of the orb’s surface in hot lava. Over the eons, that lava created the dark blotches, or maria, ...
A seasonal imbalance in the amount of solar energy absorbed and released by the planet Mars is a likely cause of the dust storms that have long intrigued observers, a team of researchers reports. Mars’ extreme imbalance in energy ...
A team of scientists, including Dr. German Martinez from the Universities Space Research Association at LPI, just published a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This study indicates there are seasonal energy imbalances in the ...
Curiosity continues to navigate challenging terrain. The drive executed over the weekend moved us 8 m from our previous location. Prior to the weekend drive, we completed contact science with APXS and MAHLI on targets “Pedra Pintada” and “San ...
The ‘Space-as-a-service’, ‘Satellite-as-a-service’ and ‘Space Data as a Service’ are the newest business models of Space Industry, according to a recent report from International Defense, Security and Technology Inc (IDST). They said that the modern space industry is witnessing ...
The E.T.PACK-Fly consortium, coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and made up of the University of Padova, the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), the Spanish company SENER Aeroespacial and the German start-up Rocket Factory Augsburg ...
CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) reports it has successfully demonstrated space to space optical communications links in low earth orbit (LEO) in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Space Development Agency (SDA) as part ...
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States aerospace and defense industry, has announced it delivered its CubeSat Proximity Operations Demonstration (CPOD) satellite to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...
Western Sydney University’s International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in a move to formalise and strengthen international space observation research partnerships and collaborations. The MoU will ...
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, has announced that the NASA team successfully completed their Preliminary Design Review (PDR) milestone on May 6th, 2022, to support the ...
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) reports that the company has developed an on-orbit additive-manufacturing technology that uses photosensitive resin and solar ultraviolet light for the 3D printing of satellite antennas in the vacuum of outer space. The novel technology ...