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UK meteor: ‘huge flash’ as fireball lights up skies | Space
A large meteor blazed across UK skies on Sunday night, delighting those lucky enough to spot it.The meteor was spotted shortly before 10pm and was visible for around seven seconds. It was captured on doorbell and security cameras in…
A SpaceX rocket will launch a Starlink satellite fleet tonight and you can watch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will launch its next batch of Starlink satellites on Sunday (Feb. 28) as part of an effort to further expand the company's satellite-internet fleet, and you can watch the action live online. The Hawthorne,…
NASA’s Mars rover had a secret message in its parachute. Meet the man behind it
The footage gave the world a glimpse of an often entirely invisible process, including the deployment of the parachute to slow down the spacecraft after entering the atmosphere. The 70.5-foot supersonic parachute was an extraordinary…
Mars trip ‘can only be understood through Black Americans’, NASA tweets,
The US space agency has renamed its DC headquarters after NASA’s first black female engineer Mary Jackson, celebrating with a poem about “going to Mars” even as the agency delayed the planned return to the moon. Long…
NASA leaves hidden message on parachute of Mars rover
Amateur puzzle fans delighted this week when NASA revealed it had hidden a secret color-coded message on the parachute for the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars last week.The message, written by systems engineer Ian Clark in binary…
Sun probe surprises NASA with incredible photo of Venus
The Parker Solar Probe, NASA’s closest eye on the Sun, was whizzing by Venus last summer for a gravity assist when it snapped a striking new image of the planet’s mysterious nightside, revealing a surprisingly clear view of the…
Lone high-energy neutrino likely came from shredded star in distant galaxy
Enlarge / The remains of a shredded star formed an accretion disk around the black hole whose powerful tidal forces ripped it apart. This created a cosmic particle accelerator spewing out fast…
NASA postpones second SLS Green Run test
WASHINGTON — Just days after NASA said it was ready to perform a second static-fire test of the Space Launch System core stage, the agency announced Feb. 22 that the test would be delayed because of a valve problem. NASA said…
See Raw Image Of The Week Sent By NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover
<!-- -->This is the first image NASA's Perseverance rover sent back after touching down on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.New Delhi: NASA on Monday released a new photograph from Perseverance rover mission on Mars. This was the first image…