The purpose of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is to see if this is an efficient method of deflecting the path of an asteroid should one threaten the Earth in the future.
Solar scientists around the world — including at the Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India (CESSI) at IISER Kolkata are studying the progress of this storm. If the storm does hit on November 4, it could be dubbed the ‘Diwali solar storm’.
Astronomers have recently revealed that many other stars, like our Solar System, have planets around them. Approximately 5000 such exoplanets have been discovered to date.
Pesquet just completed his second trip on the International Space Station, an event that taught him a newfound appreciation for Earth's fragility
The possible exoplanet candidate was spotted in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51) and is located some 28 million light-years away from the Milky Way, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory said in a statement.
This is the third crew rotation trip with astronauts aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and the fourth voyage with astronauts as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program, including the Demo-2 test flight.
Giving a panorama view of the “South Seitah" region of Mars’ Jezero Crater, offering clues to the area’s mysterious past, the rover has captured sounds and all sonic abilities of what being on Red Planet is like.
If this project stays on track, the Russian crew will beat a Hollywood project announced last year by actor Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Lucy will embark on a 12-year mission to explore the "fossils of planet formation," Jupiter's Trojan asteroid swarms.
The asteroid has a diameter ranging from 72 to 160 metres, making it more prominent than the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
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