Solar System
- Jan- 2022 -20 JanuaryScience
SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Leave Streaks in Asteroid-Hunting Telescope’s Images
A prime ground-based observatory that scans the sky for exploding stars and dangerous near-Earth asteroids is struggling with disruptive light…
Read More » - 15 JanuaryScience
Landmark Webb Observatory Is Now Officially a Telescope
After several tense days of unfurling and clicking its various parts into place, the biggest and most sophisticated space telescope…
Read More » - 14 JanuaryScience
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Chokes on Mars Pebbles while Collecting a Rock Sample
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has some rocks stuck in its throat. Perseverance drilled and collected its sixth Red Planet rock sample…
Read More » - Oct- 2021 -13 October
Blue Origin Launches William Shatner and Crew to the Final Frontier
VAN HORN, Texas — William Shatner has boldly gone where no 90-year-old has ever gone before. The famed “Star Trek”…
Read More » - 13 October
Planetary Defense Is Good—but Is Planetary Offense Better?
Less than eight years from now, on Friday the 13th of April 2029, a 370-meter-wide asteroid called Apophis will pass…
Read More » - Sep- 2021 -13 SeptemberScience
Solar ‘Superflares’ Rocked Earth Less Than 10,000 Years Ago—and Could Strike Again
Every now and then, our star produces immense flares of particles and radiation that can wreak havoc on Earth. For…
Read More » - Aug- 2021 -6 AugustScience
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Foiled in First Attempt to Grab Rock for Return to Earth
Editor’s Note (8/6/21): Shortly after this story was published, NASA officials announced that data received from Perseverance suggested that no…
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