Scientists at UC Santa Cruz cooked ancient meteorite pieces in a high-temperature forge and studied the gases that were emitted to conduct an unique laboratory analysis of the first Layers of the Atmosphere Layers of planetary bodies like Earth. Their findings, which were released on April 15 in Natural Astronomy, imply that many standard assumptions … Read more
Russian space agency film revealed that ISS and NASA scientists and crew members landed safely on the desert of Kazakhstan early Saturday, ending their half-year mission aboard the International Space Station. At 04:55 GMT, around 150 kilometres (90 mi) south of the city of Zhezkazhagan, Russians Sergey Ryaznikov with Sergey Kud-Severchkov and NASA’s Kate Rubins … Read more
On Thursday, fresh photographs appeared showing the imprint left on an asteroid by a NASA spacecraft when it returned to Earth after capturing a cargo of trash last year. On April 7, the Osiris-Rex spacecraft flew over the asteroid Bennu for the last time to capture images of the damage caused by the sample harvest … Read more