The Orion Nebula, the closest star-forming region to Earth, contains free-floating objects the size of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, according to research conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA) using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Our knowledge of how stars and planets are produced has been entirely changed by the discovery.…
Another important discovery made with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope is the presence of carbon dioxide in a specific area of Europa’s frozen surface. For life as we know it, carbon is a necessary component. This suggests that the most recent Webb find might represent a significant development in the quest for…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the company that runs the solar observatory Aditya-L1. Five of the seven different scientific payloads that will be used by the solar observatory to track the sun were created by the ISRO. It will carry out this action from its location at Lagrange Point 1, a gravitationally stable…
The magnificent spiral galaxy M51, often known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, has been photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope. The image exhibits complex and displays the galaxy’s well-developed spiral arms. The Whirlpool Galaxy, which is around 27 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici, is well-known for its turbulent interaction with NGC…
The helicopter made a quick 25-second hop, providing the Ingenuity team with vital information to help them comprehend why its 53rd flight terminated abruptly. After an unforeseen stoppage during its last hop, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has now successfully completed its 54th trip on Mars, marking an important milestone. For the Perseverance Mars rover science…
The Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) was able to raise the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s orbit with success for the second time. The spacecraft is now flying at a perigee of just over 200 kilometers thanks to the Orbit-Raising Maneuver. To achieve the precise altitude required to get away from Earth’s gravitational force and set out on…
Rocket Lab launched the first suborbital version of its Electron vehicle on June 17 under a veil of secrecy only broken by the rocket’s engines. At 9:24 p.m. Eastern, the Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) vehicle took off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Launch Complex 2 on Wallops Island, Virginia. Nearly an hour and…
Six years and three dozen flights after the company’s initial attempt at an orbital launch, a second pair of NASA storm-tracking cubesats were launched late on May 25 using an Electron rocket from Rocket Lab. The Electron rocket took off from the organization’s Send off Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:46 p.m. Eastern. Two…
SpaceX sent 22 of its Starlink broadband “V2 mini” satellites into orbit early on Friday, May 19, landing the returning rocket at sea. At 2:19 a.m. EDT (06:19 GMT) on Friday, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft of the next generation launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Bird of…
Exists life beyond Earth? It’s possible that a brand-new snake-like robot will find out. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working on the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) for a space mission to Enceladus, one of Saturn’s 83 moons with the whitest and most reflective surface in the solar system. It’s accepted that there is a…