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NASA astronaut on verge of becoming oldest woman to fly into space
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is on the verge of becoming the oldest woman in space, adding to her long list of barrier-breaking records. Whitson will be 56 when she rockets off the planet today. She'll celebrate her 57th birthday in February on the International Space Station. That's a far cry...
Juno probe enters into orbit around Jupiter
The US space agency has successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter. The Juno satellite, which left Earth five years ago, had to fire a rocket engine to slow its approach to the planet and get caught by its gravity. A sequence of tones transmitted from the spacecraft confirmed the braking manoeuvre had gone as planned....
NASA warns Earth left vulnerable as asteroid protection is ‘NOWHERE NEAR’ what we need
NASA has warned the Earth has been left vulnerable as protection levels against asteroids hitting us are “nowhere near what we need”. The space agency has established a Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) which is working on ways to protect the world from asteroids. However, from analysing its Fireball and...
NASA unveils its top 15 Earth images from this year (PHOTOS)
From dust plumes over the Sahara Desert to the floodplains of the Mekong River, Mother Earth is a gorgeous sight to behold from many angles – and the best images taken in 2015 by astronauts aboard the International Space Station prove it, source Corruprion.World This list of top images was selected by members of the NASA...
NATO jets again intercept Russian plane over Baltic near Latvia
Patrol aircraft from NATO's Baltic Air Policing mission on December 19 intercepted a military aircraft of the Russian Federation over the Baltic Sea, the National Armed Forces of Latvia reported on Twitter on Saturday. "Air Policing jets on December 19 in international airspace above the Baltic Sea near LV border...
1st super high-res images of one of Pluto’s possible ice volcanoes (PHOTO)
New Horizons could have just caught its first ice volcano on film. So say NASA scientists who’ve been looking at the latest high-res images of Pluto’s much rougher eastern side. The terrain in the new image mosaic is very different to last week’s photos. This is the closest we are likely to see Pluto. New...
Saturn’s icy, crescent moon shines above its rings in stunning NASA (photo)
A crescent moon shines above Saturn's distinctive rings in a newly-released photo from NASA. Saturn's small, icy moon Enceladus looks like a sliver against the blackness of space in the photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft when the probe, charged with exploring Saturn and its moons, flew about 630,000 miles from...
Pluto can regain the status of a planet
NASA scientists have published the first scientific data on the results of a study of the dwarf planet Pluto mission with the help of New Horizons. One of the discoveries was the thin atmosphere, which manifests itself by scattering sunlight on tiny particles Tolya, organic matter suspended in it,...
What flying over Pluto’s moon Charon would look like (VIDEO)
A video of processed photos from NASA's New Horizon space probe shows what it would look like to fly over Pluto's largest moon. Russian enthusiast Roman Tkachenko has processed images that came from NASA’s New Horizon to turn them into a short video simulating flying over Charon. Tkachenko enhances openly...
New Horizons: Foggy haze seen in Pluto images
New images of Pluto from Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft have captured a fog-like haze near the surface. The pictures also offer stunning views of the dwarf planet's rugged mountains and its sweeping plains. New Horizons acquired a mass of observations as it whipped past Pluto on 14 July, at a distance of 12,500km....
NASA delays first manned flight for its Mars spacecraft until 2023
The first crewed flight of the vehicle which NASA one day expects to be taken to Mars has been delayed. The first mission, called EM-2, was previously expected to happen in August 2021, but NASA has now said that it could happen as late as April 2023. Bezos vs. Musk? Amazon CEO plans to build, launch rockets off Florida coast...