NASA plans to fly a spacecraft to Europa, an icy marble that is one of Jupiter’s 92 known moons, in October. The primary goal of the probe? to assist researchers in determining whether Europa can sustain life as we know it. The government sent a release on Tuesday, January 30, describing this robotic explorer as […]
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The space agency declared on Thursday that rotor blade damage has rendered the 4-pound (1.8-kg) Ingenuity helicopter unfit for flight. Officially, its $85 million mission is ended, but it’s still upright and in communication with flight controllers, according to officials. Originally designed as a temporary technology demonstration, Ingenuity completed 72 flights on Mars in three […]
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The oldest black hole ever detected has been found to be ‘eating’ its host galaxy to extinction, according to research, and it dates back to the beginning of the universe. The black hole was discovered by an international team led by the University of Cambridge using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The black […]
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In keeping with its goal of enabling commercial supersonic travel, NASA has unveiled a unique quiet supersonic aircraft. The X-59 is an experimental aircraft that NASA unveiled on Friday at a joint event with Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. Its predicted top speed is 1.4 times the speed of sound, or 925 mph […]
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It launched without a hitch. The Peregrine spacecraft was set free on the ideal course for its historic journey to the moon when the Vulcan Centaur rocket, which had shed its solid rocket boosters, shook into the darkness above Cape Canaveral early on Monday morning. Tory Bruno, the CEO of United Launch Alliance, the company […]
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NASA has revealed that the Artemis program, which intends to send humans back to the moon this decade in the midst of a resurgent global drive for lunar exploration, is experiencing some significant delays. At a press conference on Tuesday, NASA officials announced that the Artemis III mission, which was supposed to achieve the historic […]
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Although Uranus is recognized for being green and Neptune for being a rich blue, a recent study has shown that the two ice giants’ colors are actually much closer than previously believed. Thanks to research undertaken by Professor Patrick Irwin of the University of Oxford, the proper hues of the planets have been confirmed and […]
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NASA is attempting to strike a balance between the science it can do, the difficulties of landing on the moon, and other changing concerns as it gets ready for the first launch of a commercial lunar lander carrying agency-sponsored payloads. On January 4, United Launch Alliance said that it has finished the launch preparation assessment […]
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William Buckland, the first professor of geology at Oxford University, presented his research on the Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur to be described scientifically, in 1824, and it completely altered the course of science. The finding of this massive carnivorous animal, whose fossils were discovered in Oxfordshire, England, ushered in a new era of knowledge regarding […]
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Greater than Mount Everest, the enormous comet known as the “Devil Comet” is hurtling toward Earth. This celestial body, which goes by the official name 12P/Pons-Brooks, is a periodic comet with an orbital period of 71 years. Comet 12P blazed across the skies in a breathtaking display of celestial events all year long. Every fifteen […]
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