Tag: NASA
NASA’s Fermi satellite clocks Cannonball pulsar speeding through space
A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation. One such pulsar PSR J0002+6216 has a radio-emitting...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu is an active space rock
Bennu is close to Earth, it's really old and well-preserved. It might even help us in our search for clues to the origins of...
Cooking up alien atmospheres on earth
NASA's JPL scientists are recreating conditions that found in the atmospheres of a special class of exoplanets called 'hot Jupiters' using a high-temperature "oven"...
NASA spotted hopping liquid water on Moon’s surface
Earth’s Moon was once assumed to be a dry and dusty place, but over time that image has changed. But the Moon isn't nearly...
Nasa is about to test a giant solar drone that broadcasts 5G
SoftBank Group Corp., a Japanese multinational company in collaboration NASA and U.S. aerospace company AeroVironment is about to test a massive solar-powered drone that...
NASA finds wind shear adversely affecting Haleh
NASA's Terra satellite offers visible imagery suggesting that northerly wind shear is largely affecting Tropical Cyclone Haleh and consistently weakening the storm.
The image showed...
Crew Dragon Splashes Down in Atlantic Ending First Commercial Crew Mission
On March 2, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and the rocket was launched and underwent to the International Space Station.
Known as Demo-1,...
Kepler’s first planet candidate confirmed, 10 years later
In February 2019, Ashley Chontos, a graduate student of University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy, confirmed the existence of a massive hot Jupiter Kepler-1658b...
SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft launched
For the first time in history, a commercially-built and operated American crew spacecraft and the rocket is underway to the International Space Station, following...
