Tag: NASA

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  NASA pictures show the world's largest wetland lost to fires sweeping across Brazil

  

  A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet.

• Saturday, August 22nd 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  South Atlantic Anomaly and Evolving Dent in Earth’s Magnetic Field

  

  A dent in the protective shield sounds scary for any person, but what are the scientists talking about when they say South Atlantic Anomaly? The researchers from the US space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), recently noticed a growing dent in the Earth’s magnetic field over South America. And the news has caught on like wildfire across the digital community.

• Monday, August 3rd 2020 - 10:40 UTC

  Milestone for Tesla and NASA's “space taxi contract”: US can now send and bring back its astronauts

  

  The United States first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The successful mission, carried out jointly by SpaceX and NASA, demonstrated that the United States has the capacity once more to send its astronauts to space and bring them back.

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 07:29 UTC

  NASA astronauts enter the Space Station after landmark journey on the Crew Dragon

  

  NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station on Sunday after a landmark 19-hour journey on the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade, a triumph for SpaceX and private enterprise.

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  Christina Koch shatters spaceflight record for female astronauts with eleven months in the Space Station

  

  NASA's Christina Koch returned to Earth safely on Thursday after shattering the spaceflight record for female astronauts with a stay of almost 11 months aboard the International Space Station. Koch touched down at 0912 GMT on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space, along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency.

• Wednesday, January 15th 2020 - 09:11 UTC

  Australia fires’ smoke expected to circle the world, NASA satellites confirm

  

  The vast clouds of smoke from Australia's historic bush fires are expected to circle the Earth and return to the country, Nasa says. The US agency said satellites have been monitoring the movement of the smoke high in the atmosphere as it swirled east towards South America and beyond.

• Saturday, October 19th 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  Two NASA astronauts make history as they complete the first spacewalk by an all-women team

  

  A giant leap for womankind! Two NASA astronauts made space history on Friday as they completed the first-ever spacewalk by an all-woman team. The historic extravehicular activity (EVA) officially began once both astronauts switched to battery power in their spacesuits, was guided by veteran NASA astronaut and capsule communicator (CAPCOM) Stephanie Wilson on the ground and fellow astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan located on the International Space Station.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  “City-killer asteroid” zoomed past the Earth with little previous detection

  

  A large asteroid barely known to science zoomed past the Earth on Thursday, speeding by within 73,000km of the planet. That might sound far but it's about a fifth of the distance to the Moon, scientists said, and a pretty close call.

• Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 18:05 UTC

  Buzz Aldrin, second human to walk on the moon, tells Trump he is disappointed with current lunar agenda

  

  When President Donald Trump asked Buzz Aldrin, the second human ever to walk on the moon, what he thought about the United States' current ability to operate in space 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission, the ex-astronaut had a ready response.

• Tuesday, July 2nd 2019 - 11:50 UTC

  Solar eclipse Tuesday afternoon stretching from La Serena, Chile to Buenos Aires

  

  Day will turn into night on Tuesday afternoon as the sun, moon and Earth align perfectly during the first total solar eclipse since 2017. The eclipse will only be visible across the southern Pacific Ocean and South America, but can be seen anywhere from around the world online through NASA TV.