NASA’s InSight Mars lander mission will likely conclude by the end of the year as power levels for the spacecraft continue to decline.
InSight mission will end science operations in July because of dust on its solar panels
Dusty solar panels and darker skies are expected to bring the Mars lander mission to a close around the end of this year. NASA’s InSight Mars lander is progressively losing power and will likely end science operations later this summer. InSight’s team expects the lander to become inoperative by D
The moon shines like a red beacon over the bright city lights.
The International Space Station (ISS) is preparing for the targeted arrival of Boeing’s Starliner crew ship on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission. Meanwhile, the Expedition 67 crew is continuing its ongoing life science research while maintaining orbital lab systems. Weather fore
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
The analysis, led by an international team of scientists, indicates that pollution played a role in 9 million deaths globally in 2019.
A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise. The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft’s seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July.
Were you lucky enough to capture the blood moon this week? The full lunar eclipse should have been visible from Earth in North and South America, and parts of Europe, and Africa. It’s a pretty cool spectacle, especially this month when it was combined with a supermoon as well. But here’s an image of the […]
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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world's largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that pollution remains responsible for approximately 9 million deaths per year, corresponding to one in six deaths worldwide. Reductions have occurred in the number of deaths attributable to the types of pollution associated with extreme poverty.
This "Blood Moon" effect occurs because blue and green light are more easily scattered by the atmosphere's dust particles. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com
A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55% since 2000. That increase is offset by fewer pollution deaths from primitive indoor stoves and water contaminated with human and animal waste, so overall pollution deaths in 2019 are about the same as 2015.
Pollution is causing many people to die earlier than they would otherwise, both globally and in the U.S., according to two new studies.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft on Mars is headed for a dusty demise. The Insight lander is losing power because of all the dust on its solar panels. NASA said Tuesday it will keep using the spacecraft’s seismometer to register marsquakes until the power peters out, likely in July. Then flight controllers will monitor InSight until the end of this year, before calling everything off. “There really hasn't been too much doom and...
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Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated 9 million per year since 2015 – countering modest progress made in tackling pollution elsewhere, a team of scientists reported Tuesday.
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer A new study blames pollution of all types for 9 million deaths a year globally, with the death toll attributed to dirty air from cars, trucks and industry rising 55% since 2000. That increase is offset by fewer pollution deaths from primitive indoor stoves and ...
After the InSight lander studied the strongest marsquake ever detected, scientists gave the space robot a negative prognosis because of its dwindling solar power.
New evidence points to the existence of liquid water on the surface of the Red Planet, a major discovery as researcher seek to understand Mars' history.
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A stunning view of the eclipse.
The International Space Station is gearing up for the targeted arrival this weekend of Boeing’s Starliner crew ship on the company’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission.
The last time Starliner got off the ground was all the way back in December 2019. This time, Boeing wants to reach the ISS.
The lunar eclipse was visible from Skinner Butte in Eugene
It was the longest total lunar eclipse in 33 years.
On the evening of May 15, 2022, Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon blocking sunlight and casting a shadow on the lunar surface. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti witnessed this lunar eclipse from the International Space Station and captured it in a series of photographs. During a lunar
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BOONE — Residents in Boone and the High Country were treated to a spectacular sight Sunday night when the moon turned red.
There’s a lot of technological progress required before off-Earth mining operations can be considered feasible.
The private spacecraft could be flying cargo missions to the space station as soon as 2023.
The 2022 Humans to Mars Summit kicks off on Tuesday (May 17) in Washington, D.C.
Here are eight more astronomical events to look forward to for the rest of the year, including meteor showers and another total eclipse of the moon.
The total lunar eclipse was the longest since 1989.
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CASPER, Wyo. — The National Weather Service assures those looking to see the lunar eclipse shortly after sunset that mostly clear skies are expected to
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A total eclipse of the moon.
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In this lesson, students will learn how NASA is “sonifying” the universe and how these sounds might change our understanding of the most enigmatic entity in the cosmos.
NASA releases new images and sounds created from data collected on black holes.
A total lunar eclipse provided a spectacular celestial show as it unfolded Sunday night into early Monday in the Americas.
A remarkable celestial show took to the skies over the Chicago area on Sunday, as a “super flower blood moon” occurred during a total lunar eclipse.
SpaceX's third Starlink satellite deployment mission in five days launched at 6:59 a.m. EDT (1059 GMT) Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A Falcon 9 rocket carried 53 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit.
The aging shuttle-era spacesuits aboard the International Space Station have been declared "no-go" for operational, normally planned spacewalks pending analysis to determine what led to excess water getting into an astronaut's helmet during a March excursion, officials confirmed Tuesday.
Running years late, Boeing's Starliner crew capsule program is poised for a crucial unpiloted test flight to the International Space Station set for launch Thursday, a do-over of an abbreviated 2019 demo mission that has cost the aerospace contractor nearly $600 million.
A transport ship delivered the SES 22 and Nilesat 301 geostationary communications satellites to Cape Canaveral over the weekend to prepare for two launches on SpaceX rockets in June, completing a trans-Atlantic journey from France originally planned on Russian-owned cargo planes.
NASA's InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars has detected the most powerful seismic tremor ever measured on another planet, a "marsquake" estimated at magnitude 5, strong enough to reveal new insights about the deep Martian interior.
More than half of the spacecraft SpaceX needs to fill the company's planned first-generation, 4,408-satellite Starlink network are now in orbit, following the addition of 106 new internet relay nodes launched on two Falcon 9 rockets Friday and Saturday.
Less than 24 hours after launching Starlink satellites from California, SpaceX lofted another 53 internet relay stations at 4:40 p.m. EDT (2040 GMT) Saturday from Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. It was SpaceX's 20th launch of the year, and the second of 2022 to debut a new Falcon 9 booster.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday afternoon from California's Central Coast with another batch 53 Starlink internet satellites, pushing the total number of spacecraft launched in the network above 2,500, including testbeds and prototypes already cycled out of the fleet.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 3:07 p.m. PDT (6:07 p.m. EDT; 2207 GMT) Friday with 53 Starlink internet satellites. The booster landed on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.
Members of NASA’s independent safety advisory panel on Thursday cautioned the space agency not to rush toward a crew test flight of Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft. The safety advisors also said there are "obvious safety concerns" about SpaceX's plan to launch the giant Starship rocket from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, the same facility used for astronaut missions to the International Space Station.
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A used SpaceX rocket launched a new fleet of Starlink internet satellites into orbit and returned to Earth early Wednesday (May 18).
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The eclipsed moon burns red high above the bright lights of New York City in gorgeous photos captured by amateur astronomer Alexander Krivenyshev.