NASA were able to restore communication with Voyager 1 as it travels towards the far boundaries of the solar system. Image source: NASA Photo Collection, via Flickr Voyager 1, a NASA probe that is currently the most distant man-made object in the universe at more than 24 billion kilometres, is once again sending data back…
The WA Government hopes to support NASA return to the Moon through its investments in Fugro SpAARC. Image source: NASA via Twitter The Western Australia Government has taken another step in its strategy to make the state a hub for space operations and exploration, and support NASA’s next Moon mission. Premier Roger Cook announced that…
A NASA space capsule carrying the largest asteroid samples parachuted safely into Utah. Source: NASA/Keegan Barber, Wikimedia Commons A NASA space capsule holding the largest soil samples taken from the surface of an asteroid has landed in the Utah desert via a parachute. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the sample capsule from 100,000 kilometres out while…
Artemis I was given the all clear to launch yesterday morning, following tropical storm Nicole earlier in the week. Source: NASA. After months of delays, NASA has finally launched the Artemis I rocket with the hopes this mission will provide vital information to help put people back on the moon. Lift-off was achieved at 1:47…
It’s not known when the next launch date is planned for. Source: NASA. Crews at NASA are undertaking checks of the Artemis I moon rocket after it was left out on the launchpad while tropical storm Nicole hit. NASA’s Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Development Jim Free said now the majority of the storm has…
This mosaic is composed of images covering the entire sky, taken by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) as part of WISE’s 2012 All-Sky Data Release. By observing the entire sky, WISE can search for faint objects, like distant galaxies, or survey groups of cosmic objects. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA Astronomers at NASA have put together a…
Artist’s rendering of a super-Earth-type exoplanet, TOI 1452 b, as it might look if the planet were an “ocean world” – one of the possibilities suggested in a new study. Source: Benoit Gougeon, Université de Montréal. A team of astronomers have come across an exoplanet that they say is almost identical to Earth with experts…
The space agency is looking to answer how we can stop an asteroid should one ever come on a collision course with Earth. Source: NASA. NASA’s DART spacecraft has successfully hit the asteroid Dimorphos in the space agency’s first planetary defence experiment. The space agency is looking to answer how we can stop an asteroid…
These craters were formed by a Sept. 5, 2021, meteoroid impact on Mars, the first to be detected by NASA’s InSight. Taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this enhanced-colour image highlights the dust and soil disturbed by the impact in blue. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona. A seismometer onboard the Mars lander has picked up vibrations…
“Exploring high tech fabrics for regulating temperatures, Nicholson found that these products tended to be cooling fabrics, which ignored the cold flashes that often follow hot flashes,” said NASA of Nicholson. Source: NASA. A textile marketer was looking for ways to keep people with menopause comfortable but had no luck until she came across a…