Category: SPACE

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

January 11, 2023

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) will make its closest approach to the Sun on January 12, 2023. Perihelion (closest point to the Sun during rotation) of this comet is 1.11 AU (Astronomical Unit) from the Sun. The comet will pass closest to Earth on February 1st. It will pass at a distance of only 4.2 crore…

Current configuration of ISS.

January 8, 2023

Crew Dragon 5 and Soyuz MS-22 are the only safe landings for humans. Everything else is filled with waste and burned up on its journey through the Earth’s atmosphere. The leak is in Soyuz MS-22. The plan is to launch Soyuz MS-23 unmanned in autonomous mode and dock with the ISS if Soyuz MS-22 is…

Soyuz Leak Forces Russia’s Space Agency to Consider a Rescue Mission

January 7, 2023

Russia and NASA also reported leaking from Russia’s Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station. The leak started on December 14. 3 Russian astronauts are now stuck on the ISS. Russia is now trying to launch another Soyuz crew capsule to bring them back to Earth.

The most powerful pulsar in the world

January 5, 2023

Scientists have discovered the world’s most powerful pulsar star. The pulsar, named VT 1137-0337, was discovered in a star cluster 395 million light-years from Earth. The radiation from this pulsar star is strong enough to push nearby particles to the speed of light. The pulsar was discovered by the Very Large Array Sky Survey telescope…

Posted by Orion on Nov 28.

December 29, 2022

Published by Lockheed Martin, maker of the Orion Capsule. Orion spacecraft captures live view of Earth and moon (video)

‘Rashid’ sent the first message

December 20, 2022

UAE’s ‘Rashid’ rover, the Arab world’s first lunar probe, sent its first message after launch. UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said that the first message was sent to the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Khawaneej, the UAE space center. It was informed through…

GOOGOL Number

December 19, 2022

Googol is one of the largest numbers in the universe…It’s value is 10^100… It seems like it is there but it’s a bigger number than we can imagine… If you want to know its size, just remember one thing… Even if you count all the particles in the Observable Universe, its number is about 10^…

This is a dream come true for 26-year-old Katya Ekyasarate

December 17, 2022

Born and raised in Vadalajara, Mexico, a girl named Katya Echazarate always dreamed of space travel. But Katya’s parents, friends and teachers all said that it is not possible for people like us. Now this 26-year-old has made her dream come true. As part of Blue Origin’s mission, Katya Echazarate became the first Mexican-American and…

Orion returns after seeing the moon

December 14, 2022

The whole world is waiting for NASA’s Orion spacecraft to return to Earth. Artemis and Orion spacecraft are a project that took many years and spent billions. The Orion probe, which went all the way to the moon and took pictures, brought a lot of valuable data back to Earth. It is expected to land…