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Collection of the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber, CC BY. The Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most meteoroids are as small as grains of sand and small pebbles, and burn up completely high in the atmosphere. You can see meteoroids larger
Frost (blue) covers the summit of Olympus Mons, the highest volcano in our solar system. This image was taken by ESA's Mars Express orbiter at 7:20 am local Martian time. The right side of the mountain is illuminated by the rising sun from the east. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin. In early 2022, the then-Ph.D. Student Adomas
A composite image showing the Full Moons in 2020 and 2021 by month. Credit: Soumyadeep Mukherjee. The Full Moon phenomenon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures that the entire side of the Moon facing us shines in the sunlight. Thanks to the Moon's orbit
The Discovery orbiter was greeted by a crowd at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center on April 19, 2012. Credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi The following is an excerpt from The People's Spaceship: NASA, the Shuttle Program, and Public Participation After Apollo by Amy Paige Kaminski. The book will be published on June 11, 2024 by the University
A composite image showing the Full Moons in 2020 and 2021 by month. Credit: Soumyadeep Mukherjee. The Full Moon phenomenon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures that the entire side of the Moon facing us shines in the sunlight. Thanks to the Moon's orbit
Return to article list Anders took the iconic image, “Eartrise,” during the Apollo 8 mission. NASA astronaut William A. Anders Credit: NASA William “Bill” Anders, former Apollo 8 astronaut, died in a plane crash on Friday, June 7, 2024. Anders was piloting a small aircraft in Roche Harbor, Washington state. The boat entered the water
Oleg Kononenko floats through the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory in 2008. Credit: NASA. As Moscow's clocks pass midnight to welcome Wednesday, June 5, the world announces a new hero: a man who is already a national icon in Russia and in his homeland, Turkmenistan. Six decades after Yuri Gagarin first conquered space, Oleg Kononenko,
Return to article list Observations with the telescope are scheduled to resume in mid-June, although at a slower pace. The Hubble Space Telescope on Earth, taken in 2009 after its servicing mission. Credit: NASA After repeated outages due to a wavering gyroscope, the Hubble Space Telescope will switch to operation using a single gyroscope, NASA
ULA's (United Launch Alliance) Atlas V rocket and Starliner spacecraft launch June 5 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Credit: NASA. Update: After two previous postponements, NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams are headed to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of NASA's Boeing Starliner crew flight test launch.
This artist's impression of a lunar base shows solar arrays for power generation, greenhouses for food production, and protected habitats with regolith. ESA credit. The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them they have crashed either Tipped over. With all the excitement that surrounds The prospect of humans returning to
