SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Test Gets FAA Launch Licence, Preparing for 2025

SpaceX Starship Flight 7 Test Gets FAA Launch Licence, Preparing for 2025

#news #newstoday #tech #technews #latestnews #techupdates #newsupdates The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted SpaceX the launch licence required for the Starship Flight 7 test. This decision, announced on December 17, allows the company to move forward with preparations for the world’s largest rocket at its Starbase facility in Boca…

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter May Become Weather Station for 20 Years on Mars

NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter May Become Weather Station for 20 Years on Mars

#news #newstoday #tech #technews #latestnews #techupdates #newsupdates The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, initially deployed by NASA to test the feasibility of powered flight on Mars, has been repurposed as a weather station following a crash that ended its flying capabilities, as per reports. According to updates shared during the 2024 Annual…

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Set to Target Spiderweb-Like ‘Boxworks Deposits’ on Mars’ Surface

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Set to Target Spiderweb-Like ‘Boxworks Deposits’ on Mars’ Surface

NASA’s Curiosity rover is gearing up for a fresh phase of exploration on Mars, targeting a striking patch of surface features resembling spiderwebs. These structures, referred to as “boxwork deposits,” extend over an area of 10 to 20 kilometres and are believed to hold clues about the Red Planet’s ancient…

NASA’s Viking Mission May Have Destroyed Martian Life with Water Experiments

NASA’s Viking Mission May Have Destroyed Martian Life with Water Experiments

In 1975, NASA’s Viking programme made history when its twin landers became the first American spacecraft to successfully reach the surface of Mars. These landers conducted pioneering experiments, collecting and analysing Martian soil samples for over six years in a quest to determine whether microbial life existed on the Red…

October 2024 Skywatching: Comet C/2023 A3, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and More Expect Over the Coming Weeks

October 2024 Skywatching: Comet C/2023 A3, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and More Expect Over the Coming Weeks

October offers a fascinating opportunity for skywatchers with a new comet making its appearance and several planets visible throughout the month. A particularly intriguing comet, known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), will grace the evening skies after October 14. It remains to be seen whether it will be the brightest comet…

Mars’ Orbit Wobble Could Hint at the Presence of Dark Matter Emitting from Primordial Black Holes

Mars’ Orbit Wobble Could Hint at the Presence of Dark Matter Emitting from Primordial Black Holes

MIT physicists have put forward a theory that the wobble in Mars’ orbit could be caused by primordial black holes, which may constitute dark matter. According to the research, these tiny black holes formed after the Big Bang and could be passing through our solar system, affecting the orbit of…

Mark Your Calendar for Aug 24 to Witness a Stunning Planet Parade Featuring 6 Planets in the Sky

Mark Your Calendar for Aug 24 to Witness a Stunning Planet Parade Featuring 6 Planets in the Sky

Get ready for a spectacular celestial event this Saturday morning, August 24, when six planets will align in the sky. Following a similar event on June 3, skywatchers will have another chance to view Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury all at once. This planetary parade, while not extremely…

Asteroid That Triggered Dinosaur Extinction Was a Carbon-Rich C-Type Space Rock, Study Finds

Asteroid That Triggered Dinosaur Extinction Was a Carbon-Rich C-Type Space Rock, Study Finds

Recent research has provided new insights into the asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago, causing a mass extinction event that led to the end of the dinosaurs. Scientists have now identified this impactor as a carbon-rich “C-type” asteroid, a type of space rock that likely originated in the…

NASA Formally Retires Mars InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Red Planet

NASA Formally Retires Mars InSight Lander 4 Years After Its Arrival on Red Planet

NASA has formally retired its Mars InSight lander, the first robotic probe specially designed to study the deep interior of a distant world, four years after it arrived on the surface of the red planet, the US space agency announced on Wednesday. Mission controllers at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near…

NASA Spacecrafts at Mars Record Biggest Meteor Strikes, Impact Craters Yet

NASA Spacecrafts at Mars Record Biggest Meteor Strikes, Impact Craters Yet

Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. The high-speed barrages last year sent seismic waves rippling thousands of miles across Mars, the first ever detected near the surface of another planet,…