Source: NASA A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of which is located in the star’s habitable zone. If made of rock, this planet may be around twice Earth’s size. The new worlds…
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Scientists are scratching their heads at the recent discovery of a large mass of unknown material located on the Moon’s largest crater. Some, however, have tried to explain the odd findings in a study titled ‘Deep Structure of the Lunar South Pole-Aitken Basin,’ which was published in the April 2019…
Source: Express An asteroid binary first spotted 20 years ago will make another close encounter with Earth this week. US space agency NASA has been tracking the brace of space rocks, dubbed KW4. And grainy footage shows the asteroid growing steadily brighter as it approaches Earth ahead of its closest…
Last week, India intentionally destroyed one of its satellites with a missile and NASA is now saying the test has created so much space debris that it could threaten the International Space Station (ISS) and the astronauts on board. Although Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi essentially called the event a…
Source: Spaceflight Now A day before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft closes in on a frozen outpost nicknamed Ultima Thule 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) from Earth, basic facts about the city-sized object continued to elude scientists Sunday as the ground team braced for a deluge of data and imagery…
Source: AJC A Russian cosmonaut said a hole found in a capsule docked to the International Space Station was drilled from the inside, and Russian law enforcement officials are investigating how it got there. Flight controllers in Houston and Moscow first noticed a drop in air pressure in the Soyuz…
People from around the globe recently celebrated the successful landing of NASA’s InSight spacecraft on Mars. According to the space agency: “InSight’s two-year mission will be to study the deep interior of Mars to learn how all celestial bodies with rocky surfaces, including Earth and the Moon, formed.” The lander…
Cheers erupted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California as NASA’s latest craft, the InSight Lander, successfully touched down on the red planet. InSight’s journey took more than six months and spanned 300 million miles. Unfortunately, that wasn’t a good enough reason to celebrate for some social media users…