Nasa and Esa want to bring Martian rocks to Earth. Here’s what will happen to the samples once they get here: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by Nasa with participation from the European Space Agency (Esa). The …
For All Mankind: space drama’s alternate history constructs a better vision of Nasa: Great art is often difficult to quantify. Apple TV’s series For All Mankind is a case in point, running the risk of being too sci-fi for drama fans (rockets, moon bases, Mars) and having too much naturalistic drama for sci-fi aficionados (jealousy, …
Osiris-Rex: Nasa reveals evidence of water and carbon in sample delivered to Earth from an asteroid: The "coal-like" material from Bennu. Nasa / Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebers On September 24 this year, a Nasa capsule parachuted down to Earth carrying a precious cache of material grabbed from an asteroid. The space agency has now …
A Nasa spacecraft is on course to deliver material from an asteroid to Earth – here’s what we could learn: Nasa/GSFC Around 15 years ago, I was on a European Space Agency (Esa) committee, looking at Esa’s strategy for proposed forthcoming space missions. Under consideration was a mission to an asteroid. Over dinner, one of …
UFOs: how Nasa plans to get to the bottom of unexplained sightings: Raggedstone / Shutterstock As reports continue flying in about what were traditionally called UFOs (unidentified flying objects), Nasa is taking the topic very seriously. In fact, following the publication of a report from an independent committee of experts in fields including astronomy and …
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UFOs: what we’ll learn from the Nasa panel investigating sightings: Raggedstone / Shutterstock A committee set up by Nasa has examined about 800 reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), or what most of us would call UFOs (unidentified flying objects). Nasa defines these events as sightings “that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural …
Artemis: why it may be the last mission for Nasa astronauts: A camera mounted on the tip of one of the Orion capsule’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon NASA Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the …
Nasa considers sending swimming robots to habitable ‘ocean worlds’ of the Solar System: Realistic colour view of Jupiter's moon Europa. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute Nasa has recently announced US$ 600,000 (£495,000) in funding for a study into the feasibility of sending swarms of miniature swimming robots (known as independent micro-swimmers) to explore oceans beneath the icy shells …
International Space Station: how Nasa plans to destroy it – and the dangers involved: The end of an era. Shutterstock Nasa has announced plans for the International Space Station (ISS) to be officially decommissioned in 2031. After dozens of launches since 1998 got the station up and into orbit, bringing it down will be a …
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Nasa: imminent asteroid missions could reveal our origins – and help save Earth from deadly strike: DART will change the orbit of a moon around an asteroid. Nasa Asteroids are remnants of the early Solar System, with the potential to reveal secrets of our planet’s origins. But they could also bring an end to life …
Nasa has just rejected missions to moons of Jupiter and Neptune – here’s what we would have found out: A volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io. NASA/JPL/DLR It’s been 30 years since Nasa last visited Venus, with the Magellan orbiter in 1990. Now, two new missions have been selected to explore the deadly atmosphere, crushing …
Nasa has announced two missions to Venus by 2030 – here’s why that’s exciting: NASA/JPL For decades, the exploration of our solar system left one of our neighbouring planets, Venus, largely unexplored. Now, things are about to change. In the latest announcement from Nasa’s solar system exploration program, two missions have been given the go-ahead …
South Africa in the news: NASA releases stunning new pic of Milky Way’s ‘downtown’: NASA has released a stunning new picture of our galaxy’s violent, super-energized “downtown.” It’s a composite of 370 observations over the past two decades by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory, …: “South Africa” – BingNews Ahly defeat Berkane in Super Cup …
A nice South African City image: NASA Earth’s Light Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video Credit Data courtesy Marc Imhoff of NASA GSFC and Christopher Elvidge of NOAA NGDC. Image by Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC. This image of Earth’s city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program …
South Africa in the news: Asteroid 2-times size of Big Ben to pass Earth- NASA tracking ‘potentially hazardous’ rock: AN ASTEROID two and a half times bigger than Big Ben is currently making a close but safe, approach towards Earth, with astronomers deeming future approaches of the space rock to be “potentially …: “South Africa” …