It has been 34 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into the harsh and unforgiving environment of Earth orbit. It currently sits about 320 miles (515 kilometers) above our planet and is subject to solar radiation, freezing temperatures and micrometeoroid effects while delivering breathtaking and textbook-changing images. Universe to us. Thirty-four years under… Read More »
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who was one of the first people to orbit the moon and took the iconic first photo of the Earth rising above the lunar surface, died Friday when a plane he was piloting crashed ashore near the San Juan Islands. Washington state. He was 90 years old. The Federal Aviation… Read More »
A mysterious hole in the slope of an ancient rock volcano Open Anthem It’s caused a stir lately because of what it might reveal beneath the Red Planet’s surface. Here’s what it means. First of all, the pit, only a few meters in diameter, was actually imaged by NASA on August 15, 2022. Mars Reconnaissance… Read More »
NASA astronauts had to wait as they tried to dock Boeing’s first manned Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday, June 6. The five aft thrusters in the Starliner service module were disabled. And that was after flight controllers found workarounds for two new helium leaks in addition to one the spacecraft already… Read More »
Exoplanet WASP 107b is a gas giant almost as large as Jupiter but much less massive. Based on this discrepancy, astronomers did not know how a planet like WASP 107b could exist. But now two independent teams of researchers have harnessed the power of JWST to solve the mystery. There’s a planet in our cosmic… Read More »
NASA astronaut Bob Hines received a special mission shortly after taking the first Boeing Starliner to a spaceport. Hines was one of the astronauts working aboard the International Space Station for the historic first docking of an uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft on May 22, 2022. Flying with SpaceX Crew-4, Hines returned to Earth in October… Read More »
NASA, Boeing and United Launch Alliance (ULA) celebrated the historic launch of a second commercial crewed spacecraft with astronauts today (June 5). Boeing’s Starliner departed for the International Space Station (ISS) today at 10:52 a.m. EDT (1452 GMT) with two NASA astronauts and former U.S. Navy test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard. The… Read More »
After a successful launch a decade in the making, Boeing’s Starliner mission is trying to solve new problems on its way to the International Space Station, according to NASA. Two additional helium leaks were detected in the vehicle, the space agency said in a post on X late Wednesday. A helium leak was discovered prior… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The third attempt was the lure of Boeing’s Starliner mission after launching its first crewed flight test on Wednesday, in a milestone a decade in the making. The new spacecraft’s highly anticipated, people-packed journey lifted… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The third attempt was the lure of Boeing’s Starliner mission after launching its first crewed flight test on Wednesday, in a milestone a decade in the making. The new spacecraft’s highly anticipated, people-packed journey lifted… Read More »