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‘We are preparing to make history’: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe gears up for epic sun flyby on Christmas Eve (Image Credit: Space.com) On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will swoop within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface at a whopping 430,000 mph (690,000 kph), breaking its own […]
Japanese company ispace plans to land helium-3 mining missions on the moon (Image Credit: Space.com) Space mining is inching closer to reality with the latest agreement between Japanese lunar exploration company ispace and lunar prospecting company Magna Petra. In a memo of understanding, ispace and Magna Petra have agreed to collaborate to […]
An ambitious NASA mission to map the sky in 3D using a space-based observatory now has a target launch date of late February 2025. NASA’s compact car-sized observatory, called Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (or just SPHEREx for short), will map the millions of stars and galaxies […]
Carbon dioxide rivers? Ancient Mars liquid may not all have been water (Image Credit: Space.com) Scientists are rethinking a long-held belief that the liquid responsible for shaping Mars’ surface must have been water. For decades, evidence like massive outflow channels, ancient river valleys, deltas and lakebeds have suggested Mars had a watery […]
Powerful solar storms are a nightmare for farmers. ‘Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed’ (Image Credit: Space.com) Modern-day farming is a high-tech operation highly dependent on GPS-guided tractors revolutionizing the way crops are planted, fertilized and harvested. But on May 10, 2024, that system came under attack, not from mechanical […]
2 huge asteroid strikes 36 million years ago didn’t change Earth’s climate over the long haul, study finds (Image Credit: Space.com) Two enormous asteroids that struck Earth about 36 million years ago did not cause any long-lasting shifts to our planet’s climate, according to new research. The space rocks, both estimated to […]
NASA is planning to fly its F-15B jets through supersonic shock waves in order to help test its revolutionary X-59 jet. When aircraft break the sound barrier, they produce shock waves that reverberate through the surrounding air and produce the thunderous sonic booms typically associated with supersonic flight. The X-59, developed by Lockheed Martin and […]
ORCs in space! Astronomers find another vast odd radio circle in ‘completely unexpected discovery’ (Image Credit: Space.com) Astronomers have discovered another mysterious and massive circle of radio light in space. The strange and vast circle of light is an example of an ORC (Odd Radio Circle), the origins of which are currently […]
This article is republished from Eos.org under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. On April 2, 2024, a shower of fireballs lit up the night sky over Los Angeles and much of central and Southern California. Onlookers wondered whether they were witnessing a meteor, a failed rocket launch, or even a UFO. […]
Ingenuity may be down, but it’s not out. Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) gave an update on the downed Ingenuity Mars helicopter on Wednesday (Dec. 11) during the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, D.C. After traveling to Mars attached to the Perseverance rover, Ingenuity began a test […]
