space Two Large Asteroids Will Fly Past Earth This Weekend Two large asteroids the size of a multi-story building will brush past our planet later this week. According to NASA, the space bodies will approach the Earth on July 29 and 30.
space Virgin Galactic Will Build a New Spaceship Factory in Arizona The facility is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2023. It is expected that it will be able to assemble up to six spaceships annually.
space James Webb Telescope Captured a New Image of Jupiter and Its Moons The new image clearly shows the famous Great Red Spot, an Earth-sized storm that has been raging on the distant giant for centuries, and even some of the planet's thin rings.
space SpaceX Breaks Its Annual Launch Record with Starlink Mission SpaceX set its previous record in 2021: it made 31 launches, which made it the most prolific space corporation and launch provider in the US.
space NASA Reveals Five More Breathtaking Images from the James Webb Space Telescope After unveiling the first full-color image of space taken by the James Webb Space Telescope yesterday, NASA shared five more stunning and breathtaking images of stellar objects, including distant galaxies, nebulas, and other wonders of the universe.
space NASA Unveils First Full-Color Image Taken by the James Webb Space Telescope The rest of the high-resolution color images will debut on July 12. The first five photos highlight James Webb's unprecedented scientific capabilities and should include pictures of galaxies, nebulas, and more.
space NASA's Chandra Observatory Spots Galaxy Clusters' Collision Abell 2146 is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located nearly 2.8 billion light-years from our planet. Galaxy clusters contain hundreds of galaxies along with huge amounts of dark matter and hot gas.
space Virgin Orbit Successfully Launched 7 Satellites in Its First Night Mission The satellites were launched from California's Mojave Air and Space Port using its Boeing 747 carrier aircraft dubbed Cosmic Girl, with a two-stage LauncherOne rocket secured under one of its wings.
space FCC Authorizes the Use of Starlink Internet on Moving Vehicles SpaceX's new satellite Internet terminals will provide broadband access to high-speed Internet to more users, meeting the growing demand for Internet connectivity on the move, whether it’s a road trip, an ocean cruise, or an international flight.
space Rocket Lab Launched NASA's Capstone Mission to the Moon It is expected that CAPSTONE will reach its destination by entering the lunar orbit in four months and stay there for at least six months.
space South Korea Successfully Launched a Satellite Into Orbit Using Its Nuri Rocket In October last year, the rocket was launched into orbit for the first time. This test launch ended in failure because one of its engines shut down prematurely.
space BepiColombo Makes Its Second Mercury Flyby During this flyby, BepiColombo approached the planet from the night side. The next Mercury flyby of BepiColombo is scheduled to take place about one year from now.
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.
