A near-Earth asteroid as wide as the Statue of Liberty is tall has been discovered that could strike Earth in 2032. It’s triggered a rare warning by the International Asteroid Warning Network, which NASA chairs.
The ship will return with its crew and the two astronauts stuck on the International Space Station early next year.
The asteroid is around 500 feet and will come within 2 million miles of Earth, which is about eight times further than the moon.
Two astronauts have been stuck on the International Space Station for two months longer than planned won’t return home until at least February.
The South Australian government’s ‘Kanyini’ satellite is now in orbit, having launched on a SpaceX mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Although the asteroids will make close approaches, NASA believes they don’t pose any potential danger.
The Italian luxury fashion house is teaming up with commercial space company, Axiom House, to design NASA lunar spacesuits for its Artemis III mission. The new partnership will see Prada’s engineers work alongside the Axiom Space systems team during the design process to develop solutions for materials and design features to protect astronauts from the […]
The US national space agency, NASA, is planning to build houses on the moon by 2040 – and Mars could be next.
A NASA explorer spacecraft returned to Earth Sunday morning after nearly seven years spent in space on the OSIRIS-REx mission to collect pieces of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu, which scientists say may help unlock the secrets of the solar system’s origins and solve the mystery of how life began.
The largest asteroid is RH, an 89-foot asteroid the size of an airplane.