space
A Japanese lunar mission failed after a historic yet incomplete landing attempt. Startup company Ispace attempted the first private moon landing. In a statement, the company announced it lost communication with the uncrewed Hakuto-R lunar lander, ending a four-month-long mission. The lander was also carrying the Rashid rover, which the Guardian reports was the first Arab-built lunar spacecraft, constructed by Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in […]
A miles-long glob of seaweed is propelling itself toward Florida’s Gulf Coast and is expected to hit the state’s shorelines in the next few days. Per local outlets, the mass, known as the great Atlantic Sargassum belt, is a 5,000-mile-long glob of seaweed that has been floating harmlessly across the Atlantic Ocean. While at sea, the seaweed served as […]
Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a British space scientist best known for presenting BBC One’s The Sky at Night and CBeebies Stargazing, has been made into a “Barbie Role Model” in recognition of her making space and science accessible to girls. Created by toy firm Mattel, the ‘Her’ doll pays tribute to Dr. Aderin-Pocock’s work with the James Webb […]
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 […]
Tom Cruise is working towards finalizing a deal that will make him the first actor to shoot a feature film in outer space, TMZ reports. Cruise is said to be speaking with the Universal Films Entertainment Group about filming at the International Space Station, accomplishing a goal that has been years in the making. While movies like […]
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 […]
