This illustration taken from the website of NASA shows TOI 700 e, an Earth-size planet identified by using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. (PHOTO COURTESY OF NASA) LOS ANGELES – US scientists have identified an Earth-size world using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), NASA announced on Tuesday. The Earth-size planet, called […]
NASA's Orion capsule splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after parachutes were deployed, off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, Dec 11, 2022. (CAROLINE BREHMAN / POOL VIA REUTERS) NASA's Orion capsule barreled through Earth's atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon, winding up […]
In this handout video grab courtesy of NASA TV the Earth is visible as a crescent in the minutes after Orion finished its engine burn around the moon on Dec 5, 2022. (HANDOUT / NASA TV / AFP) The uncrewed Orion capsule of NASA's Artemis I mission sailed within 80 miles (130 km) of the […]
In this photo provided by NASA, the Earth and its moon are seen from NASA's Orion spacecraft on Nov 28, 2022. Orion and its three test dummies entered lunar orbit on Nov 25, more than a week after launching on the first flight of the Artemis program. (NASA VIA AP) LOS ANGELES – NASA's Orion […]
NASA's Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft lifts off on the Artemis I flight test at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States, Nov 16, 2022. (KEEGAN BARBER / NASA / HANDOUT VIA XINHUA) LOS ANGELES – NASA's Orion spacecraft completed its closest flyby of the Moon Monday morning. Before the […]
This undated composite handout image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) released by NASA and STScl, shows the Protostar within the dark cloud L1527 with ejections from the star above and below appear orange and blue in infrared view. (HANDOUT / ESA, NASA, CSA, STSCI / AFP) LOS ANGELES – NASA's James […]
NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket is rolled out to Launch Pad Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Aug 16, 2022. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP) NASA's gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long crawl to its launchpad Tuesday night ahead of the behemoth's […]