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NASA, in the agency’s own words, is “crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid…on purpose.” On Wednesday at approximately 1:21 a.m. ET, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. But what, exactly, is DART? In short, it’s the first planetary defense test mission, the […]
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ space company, filed a federal lawsuit Friday over NASA awarding a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s rival company SpaceX. Bezos founded the company to pursue commercial space flight, and after a trip from Texas last month, offered NASA $2 billion to change its mind about the contract. The filing mentioned “NASA’s unlawful […]
Upcoming changes in the moon’s orbit could have devastating effects on the United States. According to a newly published report, researchers at NASA and the University of Hawaii predict a “wobble” in the moon’s orbit, combined with rising sea levels due to climate change, will cause record flooding in the country’s coastal cities. NASA explains that these floods […]
Late last week, it finally happened: A long-teased intelligence report on UAPs, complete with firsthand accounts of Navy pilots, was released. And for those who have been following this issue for a long time, the report—though inaccurately downplayed in a number of ensuing news updates—was about as inconclusive (on the surface) as it was expected […]
A newly discovered exoplanet, or planet outside of the solar system, may contain water clouds, CNN reports. Located 90 light-years from Earth, the exoplanet, known as TOI-1231 b, is believed to have clouds in its atmosphere, based on observations of the planet’s radius and mass. Researchers suspect TOI-1231 b is low density, and quite comparable to another […]
On Monday, a NASA spacecraft filled with asteroid rubble, called Osiris-REx, started its journey back to Earth. It should be here in *checks watch* roughly two-and-a-half years. Osiris-REx first got to asteroid Bennu in 2018. For two years it flew near/around it. Then it touched down and collected debris. It’s estimated to be holding somewhere between half a […]
The Chinese rocket that was anticipated to fall to Earth, finally landed on early Sunday morning in the Indian Ocean, near the Maldives. CNN reports that according to China’s space administration, a majority of the debris burned up as it re-entered the atmosphere. NASA administrator Bill Nelson denounced China for the rocket’s uncontrollable landing and […]
SpaceX’s latest Starship rocket prototype completed its test flight Wednesday with a first-ever successful landing. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared the milestone accomplishment on Twitter. The newest 150-foot prototype, Starship serial number 15, or SN15, completed a climb of around 30,000 feet above its South Texas facility before executing a series of aerial acrobatics and returning to solid […]
NASA is taking the “better safe than sorry” approach. Earlier this week, the space agency kicked off a five-day “tabletop exercise” that simulates a hypothetical asteroid impact on Earth—a scenario that reportedly remains very unlikely at this point. The exercise, which is being lead by Center for Near Earth Object Studies, aims to test how experts and agencies […]
NASA once again careened into the early morning news cycle with some history-making developments of the Mars variety on Monday. The agency said early Monday that it’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter had become the first aircraft in history to successfully make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The flight’s success was confirmed by the Ingenuity […]
