SpaceX’s Roadster-Flying Starman Completes First Orbit of the Sun0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 20, 2019
Starman’s orbit will soon keep him very far from the Earth, until 2047.
Starman’s orbit will soon keep him very far from the Earth, until 2047.
Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to re-hash a theory he had a few years ago: dropping nuclear bombs on Mars to release trapped carbon dioxide and heat up the planet.
The incredible space event happened about 900 million years ago.
Marking a new era in space tourism, Virgin Galactic’s “Gateway to Space” is now ready for business, the company said on Thursday.
An ancient impact with a planetary embryo changed the core of the gas giant forever.
Dark matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe’s mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics. What exactly it is and how it came to be is a mystery, but a new Johns Hopkins University study now suggests that dark matter may have existed before the Big Bang.
Asteroid Bennu is one of the Near-Earth Objects that is currently being studied by NASA.
NASA has captured a phenomenon in space that has eluded humanity for centuries — an “interplanetary shock.”
August’s asteroid activity is not over yet: According to NASA data, another “potentially hazardous” space rock about the size of the Washington Monument will fly by Earth at the end of the month.
You’ll be able to see some of it for up to another week.