The celestial body could come close enough to the Sun for us to launch a mission.
Astronomers discovered a new object in an eccentric orbit around the Sun, which could come as close as 11 AU to our star.
The luxury six-hour roundtrip flight will include plush reclining seats, anti-glare windows for photography, and livestream-capable WiFi.
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Estimated to be between 100 to 370 kilometres in width, the object is bigger than the normal specification of a comet and is likely to be a dwarf planet.
A 6, 00000 year orbit
Boeing finished loading hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide maneuvering propellants over the weekend into the company’s second space-rated Starliner capsule at the Kennedy Space Center, days after stacking of its Atlas 5 launcher began a few miles away at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The capsule is scheduled to launch July 30 at 2:53 p.m. EDT (1853 GMT) on a test flight to the space station. If all goes according to plan, it will clear the way for Boeing to carry astronauts to the station, possibly before the end of this year.
That will be welcome news to NASA, which has funded the Starliner spacecraft’s development through its a commercial crew program in a cost-sharing arrangement with Boeing. NASA’s commercial crew contracts with Boeing since 2010 are valued at more than $5 billion.
NASA and the European Space Agency recently announced the approval of three new missions to explore Venus.
How did this scorching planet evolve to be so different than its sister, Earth? 3 NASA and ESA missions are beginning the search for answers.
More than 90 years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble observed the first hint of the rate at which the universe expands, called the Hubble constant.
Almost immediately, astronomers began arguing about the actual value of this constant, and over time, realized that there was a discrepancy in this number between early universe observations and late universe observations.
Early in the universe’s existence, light moved through plasma — there were no stars yet — and from oscillations similar to sound waves created by this, scientists deduced that the Hubble constant was about 67. This means the universe expands about 67 kilometers per second faster every 3.26 million light-years.
NASA successfully detects an earthquake aftershock using balloon-borne seismometers. This new balloon technology may be used to explore Venus’ deep interior from high in its atmosphere.
This guy is selling land on the Moon.
I didn’t know if it was a gimmick, a scam, or a real thing…so we had to track him down and tell you his story from the beginning!
Using observations from radio astronomy and gravitational waves we can get a better picture of the population of double neutron stars. PhD student Shanika Galaudage discusses her latest research on how to combine these observations — with the key in understanding how these systems evolve.
