Wednesday, March 22, 2023

NASA

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission scheduled for Feb 26

NASA and SpaceX have set February 26 as the launch date for the Crew-6 mission, which will send four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month stay.The mission is NASA’s sixth crew rotation flight.Crew-6 will send...

NASA’s Geotail mission operations come to an end after 30 years

After 30 years in orbit, mission operations for the joint NASA-JAXA Geotail spacecraft have ended, after the failure of the spacecraft’s remaining data recorder. Since its launch on July 24, 1992, Geotail orbited Earth, gathering an immense dataset on...

2022 was 5th warmest year on record, situation alarming: NASA

Earth’s average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest year on record, according to an analysis by US space agency NASA, which termed the situation as “alarming”.The global temperatures in 2022 were 1.6-degree Fahrenheit (0.89-degree...

US, Japan sign pact at NASA HQ to explore deep space

The US space agency and Japan have signed an agreement that builds on a long history of collaboration in space exploration between the two nations. From low-Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond, Japan is one of NASA's most significant...

NASA mission spots 2nd Earth-size world within ‘habitable zone’

NASA mission has discovered a second Earth-sized, rocky planet within the habitable zone of its star -- the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet’s surface.Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the...

UN says ozone layer slowly healing, hole to mend by 2066

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.A once-every-four-years scientific assessment found recovery in progress, more than...

Indian-American named NASA’s chief technologist

NASA has named Indian-American aerospace industry expert A.C. Charania as its new chief technologist to serve as principal advisor on technology policy and programs at the agency's headquarters in Washington. In his role, Charania will align NASA's agency wide technology...

NASA gets ‘unusually close’ look at a black hole devouring a star

What happens when a star gets too close to a black hole? “Unusually close” observations from NASA reveal just how complex and catastrophic it can be.The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Tuesday that multiple telescopes recently watched a...

NASA Hubble shares striking pic of celestial fireworks display that ‘Sparkle’

The celestial fireworks display is located in the direction of the constellation Dorado American space agency NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently shared a breathtaking image of the remnants of the cataclysmic death of a star 160,000 light-years away from Earth....

NASA shares images of cosmic object

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured dual views of an unusual star cluster. American space agency NASA has shared photos on Instagram of a “globular cluster”, which contains thousands of glittering stars from the universe. The cosmic object is...