Tag results for: Astronomy
One last orbit: how and why NASA kills its own spacecraft | Tech Reader
For more than a decade, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has been searching the sky for near-Earth objects. Using its infrared vision, the spacecraft,...
Hubble spies baby stars being born in interacting galaxies | Tech Reader
When two galaxies collide, the results can be destructive, with one of the galaxies ending up ripped apart, but it can also be constructive too. In the swirling...
ISS private astronaut shares stunning Earth photos | Tech Reader
After offering some fresh perspectives of the inside of the International Space Station (ISS), private astronaut Marcus Wandt has pointed his camera the other way and captured some...
NASA’s damaged Ingenuity aircraft spotted in Mars rover photo | Tech Reader
NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, has captured an image (above) showing the final resting place of the damaged Mars helicopter, Ingenuity.
Perseverance took the picture on February 4, nearly two...
How to watch NASA launch its PACE satellite tonight | Tech Reader
Although NASA is most often associated with sending missions out to observe space, the agency also has a large number of space missions that turn the other way...
Astronomers discover super-Earth located in habitable zone | Tech Reader
Astronomers have discovered a type of exoplanet called a “super-Earth” located in the habitable zone of its small star, and it’s right in our cosmic backyard, just 137...
