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NASA sets October 2023 launch date for Psyche asteroid mission NASA says the Psyche mission, a robotic asteroid explorer that missed a launch opportunity this year due to software testing problems, has been rescheduled for liftoff from Florida in October 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
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Falcon Heavy rocket on the launch pad for one of SpaceX's most complex missions The first Falcon Heavy rocket flight since 2019 is scheduled Tuesday to kick off SpaceX's longest-duration launch mission to date, a roughly six-hour climb into geosynchronous orbit more than 20,000 miles over the equator with a bundle of payloads for ...
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'Planet killer' near-Earth asteroid spotted, the largest in 8 years Astronomers have spotted three near-Earth asteroids that were lurking undetected within the glare of the sun. One of the asteroids is the largest potentially hazardous object to Earth to be discovered in the last eight years.
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Final Atlas 5 launch from California delayed for battery replacement The Atlas 5 rocket's Centaur upper stage will place the JPSS 2 weather satellite into polar orbit for NOAA and NASA, then the rocket stage will perform a deorbit burn and deploy a joint ULA-NASA re-entry technology experiment named LOFTID, or the Low-Earth ...
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The Perseverance rover is collecting rock samples from Mars to bring back to Earth Concept illustration for research robots that could bring samples of Mars rocks to Earth-based labs. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Hidden in the minerals and textures that make up rocks are clues about how and when they formed and were later altered.
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Best space pictures of the month: October 2022 Space images surprise and delight us. Whether it's a stunning vista seen by a planetary mission, a photographer's snapshot of a rocket launch, or a space telescope's view of distant galaxies, pictures of the Cosmos help us experience the wonder of ...
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Haunting photo of dead 'ghost star' a cosmic Halloween treat The European Space Observatory (ESO) has photographed a 'ghost' in deep space. A supernova is one of the most spectacular events in the universe: the incredible explosion of a dying star that leaves behind an intricate and colorful nebula of gas and ...
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The world's most powerful rocket finally returns after a 3-year absence This will be SpaceX's first "direct-to-GEO" mission, which means the powerful Falcon Heavy rocket will launch its payload directly into a geostationary orbit nearly 36,000 km above the Earth's surface. Typically such ...
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γ Columbae as a recently stripped pulsating core of a massive star Stellar cores, that is, the central regions where densities and temperatures are high enough for nuclear fusion processes to take place, are usually covered by an opaque envelope. Only in very rare cases, stars may expose their cores, for example, ...
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Eerie image of the sun 'smiling' captured by NASA The NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory caught the sun "smiling." Seen in ultraviolet light, these dark patches are known as coronal holes and are regions where fast solar wind streams out into space. NASA ...
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