In and around our planet, there are thousands of comets and asteroids known as Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). Multiple space agencies and government affiliates are responsible for tracking them, especially those known as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA). These objects are so-designated because they will cross Earth’s orbit and may even collide with it someday. Considering how impacts in the past have caused mass extinctions (like the Chicxulub Impact Event that killed the dinosaurs), future impacts are something we would like to avoid!
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SpaceX cargo mission grounded to investigate possible fuel leak
A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship approaches the International Space Station on Aug. 30, 2021. Credit: NASA
SpaceX has postponed this week’s planned launch of a Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station to investigate a possible leak detected during fueling of the spacecraft at Cape Canaveral.
SpaceX's next cargo launch to space station delayed from Friday due to odd propellant reading
SpaceX's next cargo mission to the International Space Station won't launch this week after all.
Hubble Space Telescope images twisted galaxy shaped by a big neighbor
This fresh Hubble Space Telescope image looks like a gassy disaster unfolding deep in space.
Perseverance is Seeing A LOT of Dust Devils
While the Mars InSight lander is still waiting for a passing dust devil to clean off its solar panels, it appears the Perseverance rover sees dust devils several times a day.
Valery Ryumin, cosmonaut who launched to Salyut and Mir space stations, dies at 82
Russian cosmonaut Valery Ryumin, who launched on four space station missions including the final U.S. space shuttle flight to dock with the former Mir outpost, has died.
New simulation charts how the early universe developed within seconds of the Big Bang
A new simulation maps the first few seconds after the Big Bang, focusing on what scientists call the intergalactic medium, or the gas and dust between galaxies.
NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket returns to launch pad for crucial tests
The Artemis 1 stack rolled out to Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39B today (June 6) for the second time, gearing up for another crack at its 'wet dress rehearsal.'
First Images From JWST are Coming on July 12th
We’re about to reach a milestone that many thought we would never reach. After years of wrangling, cost overruns, threats of cancellation, and lobbying by the science community, the James Webb Space Telescope is only weeks away from its first images.
How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climate
Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ levels to their highest in 2 million years – overtaking natural emissions – mostly by burning fossil fuels, causing ongoing global warming that may make parts of the globe uninhabitable.
SpaceX's Starship will deploy next-gen Starlink satellites Pez-dispenser style (video)
SpaceX's Starship vehicle will operate like a gigantic flying Pez dispenser on some missions, if all goes according to plan.
The aliens are all hanging out on Dyson spheres circling white dwarfs, physicist argues
If aliens exist, they do exist, they might be hanging out on Dyson spheres circling the husks of sunlike stars called white dwarfs.
3 Chinese astronauts settling in for 6-month stay on Tiangong space station
The three Shenzhou-14 astronauts — commander Chen Dong and Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe — are settling in for a lengthy stay aboard China's Tiangong space station.
Lunaphiles, Unite!
The Moon is our most obvious and immediate celestial companion. For many stargazers, the Moon was our first astronomical love.
Watch an Entire Flight by Ingenuity, From Take-off to Landing, Covering 704 Meters
We’ve been keeping close track of Ingeniuity’s progress here at Universe Today. Following the little helicopter that could hasn’t always been easy – with almost 30 flights logged covering over 7 kilometers and consistently breaking its own record for longest controlled power flight on another planet, Ingenuity has lived up to every expectation so far. But it’s been hard to understand just what it must feel like to fly through the Martian atmosphere – until now.
Watch the biggest-ever comet outburst spray dust across the cosmos
The dust trail from the largest comet outburst on record will be visible to amateur astronomers in late July 2022.
Iron meteorites point to millions of years of chaos in early solar system
An asteroid demolition derby took place between 7.8 million and 11.7 million years after the birth of the solar system.
Infamous asteroid Apophis 'rediscovered' as scientists test asteroid defense mechanisms
A test of whether asteroid surveys could spot a potentially hazardous asteroid successfully rediscovered Apophis and ruled out the possibility of it striking Earth for the next 100 years.
Wow! International Space Station and Boeing Starliner captured in the same incredible image
"It felt like no other ISS imaging session before," photographer Szabolcs Nagy said.
NASA teams ready SLS moon rocket for return to launch pad
NASA’s first Space Launch System moon rocket is set roll out to its launch pad early Monday at the Kennedy Space Center for another attempt later this month to fully load it with super-cold propellants, the culmination of a countdown rehearsal officials aim to complete before moving forward with launch later this summer.
Small NASA lunar probe to hitch ride on commercial moon mission
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight spacecraft. Credit: NASA
NASA’s Lunar Flashlight — a small satellite to search for water ice in dark craters near the moon’s poles — will launch as a piggyback payload on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial lunar lander after delays caused it to miss a ride on the agency’s Artemis 1 mission.
