NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! NASA’s Perseverance rover may have stumbled on a visitor from outer space – a strange, shiny rock on Mars that scientists think could be a meteorite forged in the heart of an ancient asteroid. According to a new blog post on the rover’s mission page, the rock – nicknamed “Phippsaksla” – stood …
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Blue Origin successfully launches NASA spacecraft on journey to Mars after delays
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Blue Origin’s New Glenn Mission NG-2 successfully launched a second mission from Cape Canaveral Thursday, carrying NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft to Mars. The huge 321-foot (98-meter) New Glenn blasted into the sky and is expected to reach the Red Planet by 2027. The launch was previously delayed due to extreme solar activity …
Read More »Living in giant moon glass spheres could be our future
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One day, we might see glowing cities of glass scattered across the Moon’s surface, shining softly under Earth’s light. NASA is teaming up with Skyeports, a California-based company, to explore how lunar dust could be turned into massive glass spheres strong enough to live in. These futuristic, transparent habitats could become the …
Read More »Space startup unveils 1-hour orbital delivery system
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Los Angeles-based aerospace startup called Inversion Space has unveiled Arc, its first flagship spacecraft designed to deliver supplies from orbit back to Earth in record time. The reusable reentry vehicle can transport up to 500 pounds of mission-critical cargo to nearly any point on the planet in less than an hour. …
Read More »China launches Tianwen-2 space probe to collect samples from asteroid near Mars
China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential “groundbreaking” results. The Tianwen-2 probe launched Thursday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province aboard the workhorse Long March 3-B rocket, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The target of the Tianwen-2 will be …
Read More »NASA revives ‘dead’ thrusters on Voyager 1 after two decades of inactivity
NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, located in Southern California, have reactivated a set of thrusters on the spacecraft. The roll thrusters have not worked since 2004 and are long believed to have been out of …
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