OSIRIS-REx Sets Its Eyes on Nightingale Crater to Collect Samples from Asteroid Bennu

TECH & INNOVATION 12.17.2019 06:43 AM

Fun fact: Asteroid Bennu's craters are named after birds; Osprey, Kingfisher, Sandpiper, and Nightingale.

Saturn's Moon Enceladus' Tiger Stripes Origin Explained

12.16.2019 09:05 AM

As seen from space, Saturn's moon Enceladus has a pure white surface save for a series of long fissures in its southern region which kind of looked like tiger stripes.

Modified MAVEN Spacecraft Found Surprising Data About the Circulation Patterns on Mars

12.13.2019 06:17 AM

The journal details the findings that were collected by the modified MAVEN spacecraft from 2016 to 2018 and there were a lot of surprises for the astronomers.

NASA's Space Launch System Rocket Successful in Tank Testing

12.12.2019 09:18 AM

NASA's Space Launch System rocket aims to launch astronauts to deep space missions and its first gig is to send astronauts and large cargo to the Moon via the Orion spacecraft.

Full Cold Moon and the Planets Venus and Saturn Will Visible in the Skies This Week!

12.11.2019 10:57 AM

Telescopes out! This week experience the spectacle of the Full Cold Moon and the Venus-Saturn Conjunction

NASA Is Testing An Underwater Rover For Testing Icy Moons

12.06.2019 08:37 AM

This article talks about on how NASA will be testing an underwater rover for testing icy moons. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) It is going to take a lot more than paddling to explore the oceans, which is hidden below the icy surfaces of the most intriguing moons of some of the solar system.

What Happens When Andromeda Galaxy Crashes Into The Milky Way?

12.05.2019 08:10 AM

This article talks about on what could possibly happen when Andromeda Galaxy crashes into the Milky Way.

Dust Storms May Have Caused the Disappearance of Water from the Red Planet

12.05.2019 07:28 AM

Astronomers believed that these dust particles once trapped water vapor and had used these dust towers like an elevator to rise to the planet's atmosphere where solar radiation would eventually break their molecules apart.

Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Appears Ghostly in New Images Captured

12.04.2019 09:12 AM

Astronomers are taking advantage of Borisov's visit to obtain information about the building blocks of planets in other systems.

Astronaut Snoopy Rides Aboard the International Space Station

12.04.2019 09:05 AM

Astronaut Snoopy has been NASA's mascot since 1968, a product of a 51-year partnership between the Space Agency and Peanut, first to promote safety in human spaceflight and in recent years, to use the famous cartoon beagle to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and encourage children to be interested in those fields.

Super Guppy Transports Orion Spacecraft to NASA's Plum Brook Station for Testing

11.28.2019 10:37 AM

Super Guppy is a massive aircraft. Its cargo area alone measures 25 feet in diameter and 111 feet in length.

BRUIE is NASA's Solution to Finding Life in Oceanic Worlds

11.27.2019 10:00 AM

If it becomes successful in approaching these water worlds, BRUIE can help scientists learn a lot about the topography of the underside of the ice found in these satellites, including how they were formed and its effects on the immediate environment since the ice have the ability to trap gases either from biological or geological processes.

Space Hotel is Set To Launch In 2025 and Will Give the Ultimate Space Experience

11.22.2019 07:15 AM

Private company The Gateway Foundation is designing a space hotel that can take its passengers in space and experience the life that is only seen in science fiction movies

SpaceX Successfuly Takes First Steps to Space Transportation

11.18.2019 08:44 AM

The success of this test launch is considered the first step to flying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station starting 2020.

NASA in Hot Seat as Watchdog Finds Boeing Received Unnecessary Payments

11.18.2019 08:43 AM

Unfair treatment by NASA to one space commercial vehicle provider, as reported by a NASA watchdog NASA is alleged to have overpaid payments with its multibillion-dollar contract with Boeing to build U.

Spaceflight Triggers Structural Changes in the Brain of Astronauts

11.16.2019 06:41 AM

With the help of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina observed how the human brain adapts to extreme conditions such as the microgravity environment outside of Earth.

Scientists May Have Figured Out the Origins of Solar Spicules

11.16.2019 06:24 AM

Prior to this study, there are previous findings that also suggested that magnetic reconnections can also be the reason behind larger outbursts such as coronal jets, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections.

Jezero Crater Hosts Rich Amounts of Hydrated Silica—a Mineral Perfect for Preserving Biosignatures

11.15.2019 07:46 AM

Researchers from Brown University developed a technique that will help scientists find rare and hard-to-detect mineral data taken from the orbiting spacecraft.

NASA Spots Space Rock that is Set to Be Near Earth Before Christmas

11.15.2019 06:47 AM

A massive asteroid was spotted by NASA and it is set to hit Earth's orbit five days before Christmas

Brace Yourselves: Mercury is Here

11.11.2019 07:32 AM

This year, the planet Mercury will take at least five hours to complete its transit, making first contact with the sun at 7:15 AM.

Unsolved Mystery: Scientists are Still Debating Whether Pluto is a Planet or Not

11.08.2019 08:26 AM

In order for a celestial body to be a planet, it should become gravitationally dominant with no other celestial body close to its size except for some of its satellites which, unfortunately, Pluto cannot.