Space Giant Sunspot Doubled in Size in Only 24 Hours AR3038 increased in size sharply at night of June 19 to 20. The sunspot was located slightly north of the solar equator and was facing the Earth. It disappeared from view in a few days.
Space A Rare Alignment of Five Planets Took Place on June 24 For the first time in 18 years, billions of people around the world could enjoy an incredible spectacle in the night sky – a parade of planets. This is an astronomical phenomenon in which several planets line up in a single arc in the sky.
Space NASA's Perseverance Rover Has a Traveling Companion in the Form of a Pet Rock The Perseverance rover has shared an image of its traveling companion – a pet rock that managed to find its way into the front left wheel of the rover in early February and has traveled more than eight and a half kilometers (5.3 miles) with it since then.
Space Bacterial Species in Kombucha Can Survive in Mars-Like Conditions Kombucha cultures were sent to the ISS to determine how they would grow and survive under extraterrestrial conditions. After 1.5 years of being under simulated Martian conditions outside the ISS, the samples were cultivated for 2.5 years.
Space Scientists Share the Most Detailed Geological Map of the Moon The researchers analyzed all the data on the lunar surface collected by space agencies over the past 15 years. The surface of the Moon is divided into various colored zones.
Space James Webb Space Telescope Gets Hit by a Micrometeoroid Since its launch in December 2021, the telescope has already been hit by at least four different micrometeoroids. However, the latest one was significantly larger than NASA engineers predicted during ground tests.
Space NASA Will Create a Research Team to Study UFOs According to NASA, the study will begin in early fall and is expected to last nine months. It will focus on identifying available UAP data, how best to collect future UAP data, and how NASA can use it to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.
Space NASA Releases an Arcade-Style Game Called Roman Space Observer The targets you will need to capture include orange and pink spirals or galaxies, blue ringed exoplanets, black holes, dark matter, white starburst supernovae, green rogue exoplanets, etc.
Space Hubble Space Telescope Captures Two Spiral Galaxies NASA unveiled a new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows two bright star-forming galaxies. The two galaxies are known as Arp 303. However, each galaxy has its individual name – IC 563 and IC 564.
Space NASA Selects Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to Develop Next-Gen Spacesuits NASA has selected two companies – Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace – that will develop and produce next-generation spacesuits for the upcoming Artemis Lunar Program and future missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
Space China Successfully Launches 3 Taikonauts to Tiangong Space Station Shenzhou-14 is the third crewed mission of China to the space station since the launch of the Tianhe module in April 2021. The spacecraft delivered the crew to the low Earth orbit, where the Chinese space station is located.
Space Astronomers Discover a New Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Astronomers have discovered an ultra-faint galaxy called Toucana B. It is located 4.5 million light-years away, and scientists believe it could show us what stellar systems looked like at the beginning of the universe.
Space NASA Shared a Video of the Ingenuity Helicopter's Longest Flight on Mars On April 8, 2022, Ingenuity made its record 25th flight, traveling 704 meters at a maximum speed of 5.5 meters per second in 161.3 seconds. The video of the 161.3-second flight was sped up about five times, reducing its length to less than 35 seconds.
Space Boeing's Starliner Spacecraft Successfully Returns to Earth The spacecraft departed from the International Space Station and landed at White Sands Missile Range's Space Harbor in New Mexico. The landing was broadcast by Boeing on its YouTube channel, and NASA announced the news on its website.
Space NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Captured Lunar Eclipse From Space Over the course of about three hours, the spacecraft made 86 1-millisecond exposures. They were then sent back to Earth to be combined into a video. In the resulting video, the Earth and its satellite can be seen about 360,000 km apart.
Space Boeing's Starliner Spacecraft Successfully Docked to the ISS Starliner is Boeing's spacecraft that was selected by NASA to participate in the Commercial Crew Program to develop transportation systems meant and transfer astronaut crews from the USA to the International Space Station and vice versa.
Space Solar Orbiter Sends Back Amazing Images of the Sun Solar Orbiter is a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA that was sent into space in 2020. The mission's task is to study the Sun's activity, its coronal mass ejections, magnetic fields ,and solar wind acceleration mechanisms.
Space Astronomers Discover a Star With the Widest Range of Elements These elements were made by the rapid neutron capture process. During this process, an element gets additional neutrons that then “decay” into protons, which changes the atom into a new element.
Space Scientists Managed to Successfully Grow Plants in Moon Soil Researchers believe that this experiment is a major step toward making a long-term stay in habitats on the Moon possible for humans and solving the problem of food shortages on Earth in the distant future.
Space Humanity Will Need to Survive 400,000 Years to Make Contact With Aliens In this study, the researchers were guided by data on the history of galactic star formation, metallicity distributions, and the probability of the existence of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of stars.
Space Starlink Satellite Internet Is Now Available in 32 Countries SpaceX continues to regularly send Starlink satellites into orbit, delivering dozens of satellites at a time. The constellation currently includes more than 2,000 satellites, but that's just a small part of what the company yet plans to deploy.
Space ESO Shares the First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way We cannot see the black hole itself, since it is completely black, but the luminous gas around proves that it is there: the dark central region is surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. The new image captures light distorted by the powerful gravity of the black hole.
Space NASA's InSight Lander Detects the Biggest Quake on Mars Seismic waves passing through Martian crust, mantle and core provide invaluable information about their size, composition and structure, enabling a better understanding of the Red Planet's internal structure and past.
Space Virgin Galactic Postpones Commercial Suborbital Space Flights to 2023 In the first-quarter earnings release from May 5, the company announced plans to begin commercial flights of its VSS Unity spaceplane in Q1 of 2023 after completing upgrades of the vehicle and VMS Eve, its WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft.
Space The Alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Now Complete It is now ready to move on to the next and final series of preparations before it begins its scientific work. The last phase of preparations is known as science instrument commissioning.
