[ad_1] Indian air force officer Shubhanshu Shukla, is set to create history by piloting NASA and ISRO’s joint space mission to the International Space Station later this year. According to a NASA statement last week, Shubhanshu Shukla will pilot its mission travel to the ISS aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from Florida âno earlier than…
[ad_1] Asteroid 2024 YR4, dubbed “city killer”, is making headlines after astronomers projected that it has 1.5%, or 1 in 67, chance of striking the Earth during its close approach on December 22, 2032. NASA and other space agencies across the world, have been closely monitoring its trajectory. Asteroid 2024 YR4 size This celestial object…
[ad_1] You know the drillâpack your bags, move to a hotel, let the professionals work their magic, and return to your freshly renovated paradise. Simple. Now, letâs apply that same logic to Earth. Maybe what works for a three-bedroom apartment in downtown Mumbai will work perfectly for an entire planet. But hold on. Why do…
[ad_1] Sunita William stuck in space: The return spaceflight of NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station is still stuck in a limbo. Sunita Williams‘ return to Earth was originally scheduled in June this year. But repeated glitches in Boeing Starliner spacecraft led to the extension of the space program…
[ad_1] NASA’s recent discovery of strange formations of an electrified layer of gas in the ionosphere has challenged the scientists’ perception of having a complete understanding of the Earth’s outer layer. Space experts are struggling to explain the existence of X and C-shaped structures discovered in the ionosphere under NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb…
[ad_1] Billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on August 22 took to social media to post about his company’s new space mission â the first-ever private spacewalk. âThis will be the first spacewalk by a commercial company and the furthest from Earth anyone has traveled in over half a century!â Musk, posted on his social…
[ad_1] Scientists believe vast amounts of water may be stored within Marsâ crust. A retired NASA mission uncovered signs of significant underground water on the Red Planet, a recent study suggests. The water would possibly be enough to create oceans if it were on the surface, CNN reported. The study mentions that astronauts aiming to…
[ad_1] As a solar storm brings the northern lights to the skies farther south, social media is flooding with mesmerizing images of the fresh aurora borealis citied in the United States of America and United Kingdoms. The Space Weather Prediction Center of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had earlier issued a âstrong geomagnetic storm…
[ad_1] The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) continues to share images from space of celestial bodies, planets, nebula, moon, star clusters, interacting galaxies, etc. Most of these images are captured by NASA’s James Webb Telescope, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and NASA’s Chandra Space-based observatory. Here are a few images from space shared by NASA…
[ad_1] NASA News: The Curiosity rover made its most unusual discovery on Mars: rocks made of pure sulfur. The rover drove over a rock and cracked it open, revealing yellowish-green crystals which had never been seen before on Mars. Ashwin Vasavada, the Curiosity project scientist at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), called it the Mars…
