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NASA has detected that an asteroid will come daringly close to Earth, though it won’t hit our planet. According to a press release from the space agency, the asteroid is roughly “the size of a box truck… is predicted to make one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded.” The asteroid, called […]
It wasn’t quite the asteroid that wiped out humanity in Don’t Look Up, but Canadian Julie Bellerose was at the controls of a NASA space probe that deflected an asteroid during a planetary defence test. On Sept. 26, a space probe called Dart hit an asteroid moving faster than 22,500 km/h, millions of kilometres away from the planet. […]
Jupiter is closer than it’s been in decades. Earlier this month, NASA informed the planet that “excellent views of Jupiter” should be expected for the evening of Sept. 26. Per the space-focused agency, this is due to what’s known as opposition, i.e. the moment at which Earth is directly between the Sun and another planet. […]
NASA is on a new mission to test whether using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid really works. NBC News reports that this is the first time NASA has run an assessment like this—and is doing so to see if it can safeguard the planet from getting hit by a disastrous space rock in the future, […]
NASA has, once again, pumped the breaks on the Artemis I launch. According to the Associated Press, officials called off the uncrewed test mission at around 11:15 a.m. ET Saturday, just three hours before it was scheduled to launch. NASA said its team made the decision after detecting a hydrogen leak that morning during the fueling process. The […]
The planned launch of NASA’s Artemis I uncrewed Moon mission has been scrubbed, the agency confirmed Monday morning. After speculation as to whether the expected launch would be able to continue as scheduled early Monday, NASA confirmed it would not in a statement from the launch director shared just after 8:30 a.m. ET. At the […]
Alena Analeigh Wicker has made history. The 13-year-old Texas girl was recently accepted into the University of Alabama’s Heersink School of Medicine, making her the youngest Black student to ever gain admission into a U.S. medical school. Alena received the big news back in May, just a year after she received her high school diploma. Since then, the […]
In a breathtaking display of the humbling enormity of our surroundings, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided us mere earthlings with what the space agency has revealed is the “deepest and sharpest” infrared image of the universe to date. The image, seen in full below, provides a truly thrilling visual exploration of the SMACS 0723 cluster […]
NASA will soon be sending nudes to space in order to attract attention from aliens, UK tabloid The Sun reports. according to a study released by the space administration. A study was published explaining that the images won’t be nude photographs of actual people, but rather pixelated nude stencils of a man and a woman next to a drawing of […]
NASA announced in a press release that once the International Space Station concludes its three decades of service at the end of 2030, it will head off to greener pastures by crashing into an area known as Point Nemo in the Pacific Ocean. The Biden Administration committed late last year to extend ISS operations through 2030 before […]
