NASA‘s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is making a second, bolder and more daring flight on the Red Planet today, going higher than its first history making flight on Monday. The US space agency said it would climb up to 16ft above the surface, hover briefly, tilt and move sideways for 7ft, take a series of colour … Read more
NASA has revealed a new ‘motion filter’ video of the history-making Ingenuity helicopter flying on Mars showing just where the dust travelled around the craft. While Ingenuity was sent to the Red Planet as a ‘technical demonstration’ with no science mission of its own, NASA says it could help scientists better understand how dust travels … Read more
There could be 15 trees throughout the UK grown from seeds that were flown around the moon by NASA on the Apollo 14 mission, and scientists are trying to find them. The Moon Trees, grown from orbiting seeds flown in 1971, could be anywhere in the UK, including in private gardens, according to the Royal … Read more
NASA‘s Ingenuity performed its first successful takeoff and landing on Mars, and now the world can see the historic journey in a new video. The four-pound helicopter fired up its rotors and lifted itself 10 feet into the air where it hovered for five seconds, made a 96-degree turn and floated for another 30 seconds … Read more
The existence of life on another planet could be proved as early as 2026 thanks to a new telescope that could detect signatures made by living creatures. Research by Ohio State University shows that the NASA James Webb space telescope could detect a signature of life on other planets in as little as 60 hours. … Read more
NASA has chosen Elon Musk‘s SpaceX to build the spacecraft that take the first woman and next man to the moon. The American space agency made the official announcement Friday, which includes SpaceX’s $2.9 billion contract to build the lunar lander that is reportedly much lower than what competitors bid. The Washington Post shared the news hours … Read more
SpaceX rolled its 207-foot-long Falcon 9 rocket to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, where it is set to take four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) April 22. The target launch time from Launch Complex 39A is 6:11am ET, with the rocket reaching the ISS April 23 at 5:30am ET. The enormous … Read more
‘I didn’t think the views could get any better!’ Astronaut shares mesmerising timelapse video of the Milky Way from the Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi captured the timelapse video from space He was in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule when he took the video The video was shared by NASA astronaut … Read more
An asteroid almost as long as a London bus came just 12,000 miles from the Earth, closer to the planet than many geostationary satellites, according to NASA. According to astronomers from the Virtual Telescope Project, the asteroid, dubbed 2021 GW4, posed no threat to Earth as it passed at a safe distance and was small … Read more
NASA has signed an agreement with reality TV competition ‘Space Hero’ to send the winner up to the International Space Station for 10 days as the first prize. The Space Act Agreement between the agency and the production company doesn’t guarantee space travel, rather allows for information sharing between the two. The number of contestants … Read more