Day: July 6, 2024

NASA’s Goldstone planetary radar system recently recorded two near-Earth asteroids, 2024 MK and 2011 UL21, flying by our planet. Perhaps a tad alarming, one was only detected 13 days before it safely bypassed Earth, but scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California assure it never posed a threat. Still, the imagery …

2 Asteroids Just Zipped By Earth, And NASA Caught Footage Of The Action. Read More »

Two Chinese astronauts continued installing space debris protection outside the nation’s Tiangong space station this week. Ye Guangfu and Li Cong, two members of the three-person Shenzhou 18 mission, spent about 6.5 hours working outside Tiangong on Wednesday (July 3). Li Guangsu assisted the expedition from inside Tiangong, operating the station’s robotic arm. The main …

Chinese Astronauts Install Space-junk Shielding On Tiangong Space Station . Read More »

New images published by the European Space Agency have captured a 600-kilometer-long (373-mile-long) snaking scar on Mars’ surface in greater detail than ever before. The Red Planet is full of scratches and scars, and this one, named Aganippe Fossa, is another of these ditch-like grooves with steep walls — more specifically, however, Aganippe Fossa is …

Mars Orbiter Captures Red Planet Scar That’s Longer Than The Grand Canyon. Read More »