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Crew Of Simulated Mars Environment Emerges From NASA Habitat After A Year

In a livestreamed event, four volunteers emerged Saturday from the Mars-like, restricted environment in southeast Texas where they had been living and working for 378 days. Crew commanders Kelly Haston, Anka Serariu, Ross Brockwell and Nathan Jones are out. Mars Dunes Alpha In Houston, applause broke out around 5 p.m. Live Stream The ejection event […]

NASA prepares for International Space Station retirement

In October 2000, a Soyuz rocket delivered the first expedition to the International Space Station, where the laboratory began to take up permanent residence. Humans have had a place in space ever since. NASA is currently preparing for humanity’s next presence in space, with plans to deorbit the International Space Station in 2031. “Maintenance on […]

NASA explains debris slamming North Carolina mountain resort from space

Space junk has crash-landed on lavish North Carolina property. A landscaping worker at The Glamping Collective, a mountaintop resort near Asheville in Haywood County, discovered a large, mysterious object on May 22. NASA confirmed that it was part of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that will arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) in 2023. […]

NASA first sample shows asteroid Bennu could be from small ocean world

NASA’s first asteroid sample is the cleanest of its kind. Now, back on Earth, samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are already yielding surprising discoveries about the early solar system and where asteroids came from. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped rock and soil samples from the pristine asteroid into the Utah desert last year after a […]

NASA predicts asteroid has 72% chance of hitting Earth in 14 years

What would happen if a never-before-seen asteroid were hurtling towards us and potentially colliding with Earth? That’s the hypothetical scenario NASA astronomers tested in a recent simulation, as officials tried to plan for an asteroid that has a 72 percent chance of hitting Earth within just 14 years. After a theoretical timeline was presented to […]