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Moon mission suffers technical hitch hours after launch

Tech January 8, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

Chicxulub Asteroid Impact

Update from Nasa on asteroid 'the size of the Shard' predicted to hit this year

Tech January 4, 2024 By Katherine Fidler

December 8, 2023: After Rubio harvested one of the first tomatoes ever grown in space earlier this year, according to the astronaut, he admitted he misplaced it. In the microgravity environment of space, anything not anchored to a wall is at risk of floating away, destined to spend eternity hidden behind a nook or cranny within the football field-size orbiting laboratory and its labyrinthian passageways. Rubio said he probably spent eight to 20 hours of his own free time just searching for that tomato. Members on the space station said they located the tomato. PICTURED: NASA astronaut Frank Rubio checks tomato plants inside the International Space Station in October 2022. The tomatoes were grown without soil using hydroponic techniques to demonstrate space agricultural methods., Credit:NASA / Avalon

Space station 'whodunnit?' finally solved after eight-month tomato mystery

World December 12, 2023 By Gergana Krasteva

Trippy glacier satellite pic

No, you're not tripping – this really is a glacier

Tech December 1, 2023 By Katherine Fidler

Archive concept illustration of the X-59 aircraft - the centerpiece of NASA???s ongoing Quesst mission - which is designed to demonstrate the ability to fly supersonic, or faster than Mach 1, while reducing the loud sonic boom to a quiet sonic thump. See SWNS story SWMRsupersonic. A 'son of Concorde' that could fly from New York in 1.5 hours is a step closer to take-off. NASA???s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft has been moved to the paint barn at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works??? facility in Palmdale, California, say the space agency. The supersonic passenger plane is set to fly faster than the speed of sound, at almost twice as fast as Concorde. Engineers are aiming to reduce the sound of the typical sonic boom to a sonic thump to minimise disruption to people on the ground. NASA said in August they have identified potential passenger markets in about fifty established routes that connect cities. It is hoped one route would see flights from New York City to London up to four times faster than what???s currently possible.

Dart-shaped ‘Son of Concorde’ could fly you from London to New York in 90 minutes

Tech November 23, 2023 By Dean Murray

Miss England takes giant leap towards showing space is for everyone

Tech November 21, 2023 By Adam Dutton

12753091 NASA investigating flash over Minnesota that made a sonic boom when it hit the atmosphere at up to 130,000 miles per hour - and experts say it was too horizontal to be a meteor --------- Beltrami County Emergency Management chris.muller@co.beltrami.mn.us 218-333-8386

UFO? Meteorite? Or a bug? Mystery sighting has Nasa baffled

Tech November 17, 2023 By Jasper Hamill

Photo taken November 2 2023 by by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa shows the tool bag orbiting Earth. Photo released November 10 2023. See SWNS story SWNAtoolkit. A jaw-dropping picture shows a tool bag lost in space. NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O???Hara were left red-faced on a recent spacewalk when flight controllers spotted their kit spinning off into space. The lost property has now been photographed by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) spaceman Satoshi Furukawa. His picture was taken from the International Space Station (ISS) 255 miles above Earth. The tool bag is expected to orbit Earth for several months, during which it will descend until 70 miles when it will begin to disintegrate in Earth???s atmosphere.

Want to see Nasa's lost tool kit floating in space? This week you can

Tech November 20, 2023 By Katherine Fidler

Incident on the ISS sends tool bag flying off into orbit

Tech November 13, 2023 By Dean Murray

Billion-dollar Nasa mission discovers huge surprise lurking in space

Tech November 3, 2023 By Dean Murray

Nasa captures 'bones' of creepy cosmic hand reaching into outer space

Tech October 31, 2023 By Dean Murray

Astronauts just took one giant leap towards having sex in space

Tech October 30, 2023 By Katherine Fidler

Depiction of asteroid Bennu. See SWNS story SWMRbennu. 'Houston, we have a problem' - scientists cannot get the lid off the asteroid Bennu sample capsule. NASA?s OSIRIS-REx mission may have carried its precious scientific cargo of space dust 200 million miles, but not having the right tool is thwarting efforts to access it. The space agency reported: "After multiple attempts at removal, the team discovered two of the 35 fasteners on the TAGSAM (Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism) head could not be removed with the current tools approved for use in the OSIRIS-REx glovebox."

Nasa's billion-dollar asteroid mission thwarted by two pesky screws

Tech October 30, 2023 By Dean Murray

LIVERPOOL, UNITED KINGDOM- SEPTEMBER 27: People brave the first rain and wind of Storm Agnes as it approaches the UK on September 27, 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Satellite images show Storm Babet barrelling towards UK

Tech October 18, 2023 By Katherine Fidler

Nasa may have found 'building blocks of life' on asteroid Bennu

Tech October 11, 2023 By Zachary Folk

Illustration of asteroid 16 Psyche. See SWNS story SWMRpsyche. NASA scientists are in the 'home stretch' to blast off to a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid this year, they announced Tuesday (18 July). Engineers and technicians at Cape Canaveral are preparing the Psyche spacecraft for liftoff, which is slated for 5th October. The mission aims to study a space rock that could be worth more than the entire global economy. The craft will journey to the unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter some 499,555,545km away from Earth. The space agency said: "NASA???s psyche mission enters home stretch before launch. With less than 100 days to go before its launch, teams of engineers and technicians are working almost around the clock to ensure the orbiter is ready to journey 2.5 billion miles (4 billion kilometers) to a metal-rich asteroid that may tell us more about planetary cores and how planets form."

The countdown is on for lift off to an asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion

Tech October 13, 2023 By Katherine Fidler

ISS and earth

Nasa is looking for ideas to crash space station back to Earth

Tech September 27, 2023 By Anugraha Sundaravelu

In this photo provided by NASA, the sample return capsule from NASA's Osiris-Rex mission lies on the ground shortly after touching down in the desert, at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020. (Keegan Barber/NASA via AP)

Mysterious black dust found in asteroid sample

Tech September 27, 2023 By Dean Murray

A fragment of a huge asteroid has landed on earth

Tech September 24, 2023 By Katie Boyden

Space station explodes – and engineers celebrate

Tech September 21, 2023 By Katherine Fidler