Like some hobbits, a wee Martian helicopter received a special honor.The final resting place of NASA's Ingenuity, grounded after its last flight on Jan. 18, now has a new name bestowed from fans of fantasy."The Ingenuity team has nicknamed the spot where the...
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Asteroid 2024 BX1 left a rare type of meteorite
Back to Article List The asteroid that recently shot through the sky over Berlin turns out to have left some very interesting pieces behind. A meteorite fragment from asteroid 2024 BX1. Credit: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin/ Laura Kranich The asteroid 2024 BX1’s...
Fragments From That Asteroid That Exploded Above Berlin Have Been Recovered and They’re Really Special
On January 21st, 2024, a meter-sized asteroid (2024 BX1) entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded over Berlin at 12:33 am UTC (07:45 pm EST; 04:33 pm PST). Before it reached Earth, 2024 BX1 was a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) with an orbit that suggests it was part...
Earth from Space: South Atlantic bloom
This wide view from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captures an algae bloom around the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the circles to learn more. Algae in the South Atlantic often...
Relive SpaceX Starship’s epic 2nd test flight in newly released NASA footage (video)
Like much of the world, NASA watched the second test flight of SpaceX's huge Starship rocket closely — and we can now see what the agency saw.That flight lifted off on Nov. 18, 2023, sending the two-stage Starship aloft from Starbase, SpaceX's site on Texas'...
See a new image of the weird ‘train-wreck galaxy’ NGC-4753
Back to Article List NGC 4753’s unique shape is thought to be the aftermath of a galaxy merger more than a billion years ago. NGC 4753's twisting features. (Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: J. Miller (International...
Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae are Another Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
Supernova are a fascinating phenomenon and have taught us much about the evolution of stars. The upcoming Nancy Grace Roman telescope will be hunting the elusive combination of supernovae in a gravitational lens system. With its observing field 200 times that...
Muninn Mission highlights
Video: 00:01:05 Highlights of the Muninn mission with ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt, from the countdown to launch to his work on the International Space Station. Source link
1st look: Mace Windu protects a galactic secret in new solo ‘Star Wars’ series
Mace Windu, that purple light saber-swinging Jedi Master who stood toe-to-toe with the devious Darth Sidious in 2005's "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" until falling to his apparent death from a Coruscant skyscraper, is rising in estimation amid that...
China’s deep-space ambitions
The space station Tiangong has been constructed over the course of multiple launches. It consists of a central core module named Tianhe and two lab modules named Wentian and Mengtian. In this rendering, a Tianzhou cargo craft is docked in the foreground, with a...