Mashable1 day agoSpacecraft travels to metal object orbiting Earth, snaps stunning viewsMashable - Mark Kaufman"We're watching you from every angle." A space reconnaissance mission has returned unprecedented imagery of a metal hunk zooming around Earth. The discarded three-ton rocket, a robust piece of space junk some 36 feet (11 meters) long, is the type of problematic debris agencies seek to remove from our …
Mashable5 days agoNASA rover finds major surprise on Mars — and scientists are excitedMashable - Mark KaufmanA possible sign Mars once hosted life. NASA has used a number of eyebrow-raising words to describe their new Martian find: "fascinating," "intriguing," "compelling," and "mind-bending." The space agency's Perseverance rover recently drilled into a Mars rock, where the six-wheeled robot had detected …
MashableWebb telescope snapped photo of huge world — in a distant solar systemMashable - Mark Kaufman“It's exciting to actually see a planet there." The James Webb Space Telescope achieved a rarity — snapping an image of a planet beyond our solar system. The exoplanet, Epsilon Indi Ab, is located 12 light-years away. That's trillions of miles, but right next door, cosmically speaking. The world is …
MashableSun unleashes solar storm at Earth, U.S. may see brilliant auroraMashable - Mark KaufmanLook up. The sun, in a heightened state of solar activity, has hurled a potent mass of material at Earth. This could mean glorious aurora, or Northern Lights, over parts of the U.S. on July 24, according to the federal government's Space Weather Prediction Center. The inciting event, which occurred on …
MashableNASA shares 25 jaw-dropping space images from Chandra X-ray ObservatoryMashable - Sam HaysomLooking good, space. Space images never get old, do they? To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory being launched into space, NASA has published 25 brand new images snapped by the telescope — everything from supermassive black holes to supernova remnants. The telescope's …
MashableNASA rover finds place where 'exciting' events occurred on MarsMashable - Mark Kaufman"This was not a quiet period on Mars." Great floods once poured down a towering Martian mountain. And NASA's dust-covered Curiosity rover has proof. The car-sized NASA robot has spent much of 2024 exploring the Gediz Vallis channel, a dried-up waterway that travels down the three-mile-high Mount …
MashableScientists discover fascinating tunnel on the moonMashable - Mark Kaufman"We're just seeing the tip of the iceberg." Scientists have long suspected the moon may harbor dark labyrinths. They now have proof one exists. In 2010, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite orbiting the moon, captured imagery of an intriguing pit on the moon's surface, in the same region …
MashableCheck out NASA's next space station. It won't orbit Earth.Mashable - Elisha SauersIt'll have the most powerful solar-electric propulsion system ever flown. As the International Space Station nears its retirement in 2030, NASA and its contractors are working full tilt on a new lab that will be whizzing through space much farther from Earth. Right now, at a facility in Turin, Italy, …
MashableNASA reveals how it will plunge the space station into Earth's oceanMashable - Mark KaufmanDeorbiting a football field-sized laboratory. The International Space Station, weighing in at nearly 1 million pounds, will meet a dramatic death. After breaking apart and largely vaporizing while falling through Earth's atmosphere, the leftover charred chunks will plunge into a remote ocean, and …
MashableThe first hip-hop song beamed into space? Congrats Missy Elliott.Mashable - Shannon Connellan"The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" just made it to Venus. Missy Elliott can officially boast having the first ever hip-hop song beamed into space. Add it to the shelf with all those Grammys, Hall of Fame inductions, and tens of millions of record sales, huh? Lyrics from the queen of rap's "The Rain (Supa …
MashableNASA spacecraft just flew over 500 times the speed of soundMashable - Mark KaufmanAnd it's about to go faster. A fortified NASA spacecraft has reached nearly 400,000 mph — again. That's the fastest a human-built machine has ever flown. And it will keep picking up speed. The U.S. space agency recently announced its Parker Solar Probe — the first mission to fly through the sun's …
MashableSpaceX's workhorse rockets are grounded. Here's whyMashable - Elisha SauersWhere are those 20 misplaced satellites now? SpaceX can't launch its busiest rockets following a rare mishap during a routine flight late Thursday night. The flight was supposed to place 20 new Starlink satellites into space, which provide internet access to some of the most remote places in the …