Blue Origin Works Out How to Turn Moon Dust Into Solar Power
Blue Origin’s solar cell prototype is made entirely of materials extracted from lunar regolith simulant. Blue Origin With its Artemis program, NASA wants to do more than just touch boots…
Astronomers Spot Asteroid Hours Before Impacting Earth and Turning Into a Fireball
The fireball as seen at its brightest above France. Twitter/@MegaLuigi / Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET It may be one of the most widely observed space rocks that no one…
Meteoroid expected to safely strike Earth’s atmosphere Sunday evening over France
A small meteorite roughly one meter in length is expected to safely strike Earth’s atmosphere over northern France around 10:00 p.m. ET on Sunday evening, the European Space Agency said.…
NASA Spots Surprise Evidence of Ancient Water Ripples on Mars
According to NASA, waves on the surface of a shallow lake stirred up sediment billions of years ago. That sediment eventually formed into rock with rippled textures. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS This story…
Scientists Find Fossil of Biggest Penguin Ever, and It Was a Whopper
An artist’s reconstruction of Kumimanu fordycei and Petradyptes stonehousei. Simone Giovanardi While searching through the beachy boulders of New Zealand’s South Island, a crew of international scientists stumbled on an…
Another Russian Spacecraft Docked to ISS Has Sprung a Leak
Progress 82 arrived at the ISS in late October to deliver food, fuel and supplies. NASA It’s happened again. A Russian Progress cargo spacecraft docked to the International Space Station…
Curiosity Mars rover finds the ‘best evidence’ of ancient water in rippled rocks
NASA’s Curiosity rover has recently discovered rippled rock textures that suggest lakes existed in a region of ancient Mars that scientists had expected to be drier. Rock layers at the…
Scientists Find Fossil of Biggest Penguin Ever
An artist’s reconstruction of Kumimanu fordycei and Petradyptes stonehousei. Simone Giovanardi While searching through the beachy boulders of New Zealand’s South Island, a crew of international scientists stumbled on an…
A Stealthy Galaxy Is Hiding in This Hubble Image. Can You Spot It?
Try to find dwarf galaxy Donatiello II in this Hubble image. ESA/Hubble/NASA/B. Mutlu-Pakdil/Acknowledgement: G. Donatiello Computers have given scientists a big assist when it comes to finding and classifying space…
The Asteroid NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Will Visit This Year Has a New Name
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will visit a series of asteroids. NASA It’s a date. Lucy is set to meet Dinkinesh on Nov. 1. NASA’s Lucy mission launched in October 2021 on…