Category: NASA

NASA Scientists From Mars Missions Discuss New Finding

Scientists from two different NASA Mars missions hold a virtual media briefing to discuss how they “combined images and data for a major finding on the Red Planet.” Participants will include Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters; Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California; Liliya Posiolova,…


NASA Starts Independent Study on UFOs With New Team

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday began an independent study on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), colloquially referred to as unidentified flying objects (UFOs), with a new team of 16 people. According to NASA, the study will focus solely on unclassified data. The team of 16 will, over nine months, study how data on UAPs gathered…


NASA Says DART Mission Succeeded in Altering Asteroid’s Trajectory

The spacecraft that NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet out of its natural orbit—the first time humanity has altered the motion of a celestial body, NASA’s chief announced on Tuesday. “This is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity,” NASA chief Bill…


SpaceX Delivers Russian, Native American Women to Station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A Russian cosmonaut who caught a U.S. lift to the International Space Station arrived at her new home Thursday for a five-month stay, accompanied by a Japanese astronaut and two from NASA, including the first Native American woman in space. The SpaceX capsule pulled up to the station a day after launching into…


SpaceX Delivers Russian, Native American Woman to Station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A Russian cosmonaut who caught a U.S. lift to the International Space Station arrived at her new home Thursday for a five-month stay, accompanied by a Japanese astronaut and two from NASA, including the first Native American woman in space. The SpaceX capsule pulled up to the station a day after launching into…


Researcher Questions Extent of Carbon Dioxide’s Climate Effect

A Sept. 18 paper in the journal Climate Dynamics claims that the climate’s long-range sensitivity to carbon dioxide could be remarkably low. In an Oct. 4 interview with The Epoch Times, the study’s author, Nicola Scafetta, noted that models assuming that our climate system is quite sensitive to carbon dioxide are “more alarming” than those…


SpaceX Capsule Heads to Space Station Ferrying NASA Crew and Russian

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida on Wednesday carrying the next long-term International Space Station crew, with a Russian cosmonaut, two Americans, and a Japanese astronaut flying together in a demonstration of U.S.-Russian teamwork in space despite Ukraine war tensions. A high-ranking official of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said shortly…


Smacked Asteroid’s Debris Trail More Than 6,000 Miles Long

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. Their remarkable observation two days after last month’s planetary defense test was recently released a National Science Foundation…


US-China Space Wars and Moon Mining

Commentary The space race between the United States and China is not like the movies but is extremely important. “You could have a Chinese company on the moon in the 2030s claiming territory with a resource on it in the same way the Chinese have claimed the entire South China Sea,” warned Malcolm Davis, a…


Space Telescopes Capture Asteroid Slam With Striking Clarity

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The world now has stunning new photos of this week’s asteroid strike, the first planetary defense test of its kind. NASA on Thursday released pictures of the dramatic event taken by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes. A few hours later, SpaceX joined NASA in announcing that they’re studying the feasibility of sending…