NASA shares GIF of a new black hole 30,000 light-years away seen by students studying at an asteroid

NASA shares GIF of a new flaring black hole 30,000 light-years away that was discovered by students studying an asteroid Students using  NASA’s OSIRIS-REx to study an asteroid found a new black hole It sits 30,000 light-years away and was spotted by its X-ray emissions The team found it just a week after Japan’s MAXI telescope … Read more

NASA asks public to design a sensor for its next VENUS rover

NASA has launched a public competition to design a sensor that will guide a future rover across rough terrain and inhospitable environment on Venus. The sensor will need to be able to withstand heat capable of ‘turning lead into a puddle’ and pressure high enough to ‘crush a submarine’, the space agency said. It will … Read more

WATCH THIS: A group of autonomous military robots navigate through an underground power plant

Military robots win search and rescue competition as they search for survivors in underground power plant after gas leak DARPA hosted a search and rescue competition for autonomous robots The winning team, from JPL programmed 12 autonomous robots to find warm mannequins standing in for human survivors, and a lost cell phone in the ruins … Read more

Amazing NASA images show how pollution has CLEARED over China

Amazing NASA images show how pollution has CLEARED over China as coronavirus crisis has kept everyone indoors NASA and European Space Agency have used pollution monitoring satellites to track nitrogen dioxide levels The difference in concentration of nitrogen dioxide is revealed in two maps released by the space agencies Almost no nitrogen dioxide visible after … Read more

Scientists create stunning gifs of Mars’ sand dunes to understand what conditions impact them 

Mars in Motion! Scientists create stunning gifs of the Red Planet’s sand dunes to understand what conditions impact them Scientists used data from  NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to create gifs of sand dunes on Mars The team is hoping to understand what conditions impact them and how dunes in different areas move  They found the highest sand … Read more

Earth’s new mini-moon seen in full color, but experts questioning if the asteroid is space junk 

It was revealed in a grainy black and white photo, but astronomers have just released the first colored image of Earth’s new mini-moon. Called 2020 CD3, the asteroid has been orbiting our Earth for three years and was spotted on February 15 using the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) in Arizona. The recent image was created … Read more

Boeing skipped a software test on Starliner before its aborted launch in December

Boeing skipped a crucial software test on Starliner that could have identified an issue that caused the craft to enter the wrong orbit The integration test may have identified a software glitch before launch The bug forced Starliner to abort a mission to the ISS in December NASA approved the flight despite Boeing failing to … Read more

Tiny asteroid confirmed to be a mini-moon that has been orbiting Earth for the past three years 

Earth has a new mini-moon: Asteroid the size of a washing machine has been orbiting Earth for the past three years Astronomers tracked an asteroid in the sky and found it is orbiting Earth The asteroid, seen on Feb. 15., has now been confirmed as a mini-moon  It is six to 12 feet in diameter and … Read more

NASA video shows Apollo 13 crew’s view of the moon before having to abort their mission in 1970

NASA video shows Apollo 13 crew’s view of the moon before having to abort their mission in 1970 because of an explosion aboard the ship Apollo 13 was set to be NASA’s third mission to the moon, but an explosion on board canceled the landing A new video recreates the crew’s view of the moon … Read more