SPACEEarth-like planets are discovered near their parent or host stars, with searing temperatures; but they are also discovered far from their stars, more than 10 times further away than Jupiter is from our Sun.
On Monday, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will enter a million-mile parking orbit. On Monday, the NASA James Webb Space Telescope will arrive at its new home, L2, or the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, over 1 million miles distant.
Two more satellites were launched today in geosynchronous orbit, some 22,000 miles away from Earth, as part of the Space Force's effort for increased Space Domain Awareness, or SDA.
The crater detection algorithm "automatically counts the visible impact craters" from a high-resolution image, a planetary research team from the United States, Australia, France, and Côte d'Ivoire has analyzed the formation of over 500 massive impact craters on Mars.
Ground controllers are currently aiming at 10:40 am EST on January 23, for the undocking back to Earth of the Cargo Dragon, Space news reports recently said.
Two satellites were launched to the geosynchronous orbit through the Atlas V satellite Friday. Two surveillance satellites will be added to monitor the current traffic in the geosynchronous orbit after the successful launch by Atlas V rocket Friday.
Astronomers and high school students in China detected zodiacal light in the skies of a few potentially habitable exoplanets, which could give scientists a clue of what other planets may look like.
The Sunspot AR29 eruption, generating a powerful M5.5-class solar flare, which has been recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory of NASA in an extreme ultraviolet flash, has recently been reported.
The Near-Earth Asteroid Scout of NASA will be visited by a spacecraft by unfolding a solar sail to harness solar radiation for propulsion, making this the first deep-space mission of its kind the agency, space news reports said.
The NASA Swift Observatory, which is meant to seek for gamma-ray radiation bursts and analyze their relation to black holes, is currently in swift mode after several glitches.
On Saturday, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft will leave the International Space Station (ISS) with supplies and research experiments for return to Earth.