Boeing’s leak-prone Starliner capsule will remain docked with the International Space Station for another four days and will return to White Sands, New Mexico, on June 26 to complete its extended flight period of June 20-20, NASA announced Tuesday. It will return to Earth with a pre-dawn landing in . daily test flight – the… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of scientific data from unexplored regions for the first time since a computer glitch sidelined the historic NASA mission seven months ago. Voyager 1, currently… Read More »
Imagine pointing a laser beam at a penny 200 miles away. Now imagine riding the carousel and doing so for 24 hours straight. Does it seem difficult? In fact, this is what the Hubble Space Telescope does. After months of technical problems, NASA announced on June 4 that Hubble would switch to single gyro mode.… Read More »
A GIF showing a yellow-wrapped spacecraft with solar panel wings in space. Just outside Hiroya Yamaguchi’s office is a chalkboard full of exploded stars, spaceship diagrams, and spectral lines. The A4 printouts take up almost all the free space, except for a small corner where he sometimes scribbles with white chalk. Yamaguchi, now an associate… Read More »
Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who served as project scientist on NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, died on Sunday, June 9, at the age of 88. “Ed Stone was a pioneer who dared to do great things in space. He was a valued friend to all who knew him,… Read More »
Ed Stone, former JPL director and Voyager mission project scientist, in front of a model of one of the Voyager spacecraft. The gold plaque can be seen over his left shoulder. Credit – NASA/JPL Caltech STeve Synnott never forgot the day he let Ed Stone name the moon. The year was 1980, and Synnott was… Read More »
A rare burst of light from a dead star will likely be visible to humans. Soil This summer, a temporary but potentially harsh celestial spectacle will occur that scientists are calling a “once-in-a-lifetime event.” The technical term for the upcoming cosmic explosion is nova; This occurs when a white dwarf suddenly and often dramatically shines… Read More »
Allegation: A NASA photo originally shows “otherworldly debris” on Mars. Evaluation: Rating: Wrongly written Context: While the photo is real, it shows the NASA lander’s aeroshell (thermal shielding protective shell) initially ejected from Earth, not “in other words debris” as posts on social media misleadingly claim. A phenomenon described by some as “otherworldly debris on… Read More »
Bill Anders, one of the first people to fly to the moon as an Apollo 8 astronaut in 1968, died on Friday, June 7, when the vintage plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of the San Juan Islands northwest of Washington. Situation. In a statement to the media, it was confirmed by his… Read More »