Category : science

NASA spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid, sets records

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft has gone into orbit around an ancient asteroid, setting a pair of records.

Nancy Grace Roman, ‘mother’ of the Hubble telescope, dies at 93

Nancy Grace Roman, who began working with NASA in 1959 and is credited as a major force behind the effort fund and deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, passed away on December 25th at the age of 93. She was a pioneer in science and the space industry,...

In first, NASA spaceship begins orbit of asteroid

A NASA spacecraft set a new milestone Monday in cosmic exploration by entering orbit around an asteroid, Bennu, the smallest object ever to be circled by a human-made spaceship. The spacecraft, called OSIRIS-REx, is the first-ever US mission designe...

OSIRIS-REx probe goes into close orbit around asteroid Bennu and sets a record

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft today maneuvered into an orbit that takes it within 4,000 feet of the surface of Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid that’s 70 million miles from Earth. The orbit sets a record for interplanetary travel. The quarter-mile-wid...

NASA speeds toward historic flyby of faraway world, Ultima Thule

NASA counted down Monday to a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape. The US sp...

Record Breaker! NASA Probe Slips into Orbit Around Asteroid Bennu

A NASA asteroid-sampling probe has begun circling its space-rock target, setting a new record for the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft. The OSIRIS-REx probe achieved orbit around the 1,640-foot-wide (500 meters) near-Earth asteroid Bennu w...

NASA probe nears distant space rock for landmark flyby

At 12:33 a.m. Eastern time (0533 GMT), the New Horizons probe will arrive at the "third zone" in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt, scientists said. In this peripheral layer of icy bodies and leftover fragments from the solar system's creation,...

NASA's New Horizons Spies Elongated Target Ultima Thule Ahead of Flyby

LAUREL, Md. — After months of staring at only a single pixel of their target, members of NASA's New Horizons mission team now have considerably more to look at. On the eve of its historic flyby, the spacecraft has sent home an image that confirms it...

A Day in the Life of Earth, review: a sobering reminder of our effect on the planet

How appropriate that BBC Four chose to see out 2018 with Dr Hannah Fry, who’s just pipped to the title of ubiquitous television face of the year by Romesh Ranganathan. Her intonation may be becoming worryingly arch and Clarksonian (“fortunes can be w...

Nasa sends final commands to New Horizons probe before historic flyby of Ultima Thule

Nasa flight controllers have sent their final set of commands to the space agency’s New Horizons spacecraft ahead of its planned historic flyby of the icy Ultima Thule. The spacecraft is on a path to pass by the 30-kilometre-wide body on Tuesday, ma...

There Is an Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Outbreak in Gaza

The West Bank and Gaza are experiencing an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that doctors say are taxing already overwhelmed hospitals and medical facilities, and could spread elsewhere.

Mysterious deep space world Ultima Thule already looks weird — and we've only had a glimpse

Ultima Thule — an uncharted world over 4 billion miles away — is coming into view. On Monday, planetary scientists released a fuzzy image of Ultima Thule, snapped the day prior by the New Horizons exploration spacecraft from some 1.2 million miles aw...

Oil posts first year of losses since 2015

"OPEC is out there cutting, but the market isn't really pricing that in." Oil prices fell more than a third this quarter, the steepest quarterly decline since the fourth quarter of 2014. Crude oil futures posted modest gains on Monday.

Handicapped man had to pre-board flight alone without cancer-stricken wife

A husband and wife's journey home from a Virginia holiday trip experienced some turbulence before they were even able to get on the plane.

New Horizons team gets first fuzzy glimpse of elongated Ultima Thule on solar system’s edge

LAUREL, Md. — The science team for NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft released its first multi-pixel view of Ultima Thule, an icy world more than 4 billion miles from Earth, and the analysis suggests it’s an elongated space cigar. “We know it’s not round,...

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