Earth travels around the sun in an orbit that is slightly oval-shaped, known as an ellipse. Therefore, the planet’s distance from the sun changes throughout the year. The first person to find the distance...
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The DART mission, a Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), will be the first agency’s use of the kinetic impactor technique, in which a large, high-speed spacecraft is sent into an asteroid’s path to change its...
Let’s assume for a moment that you could possibly skydive off the International Space Station (ISS). Could you survive and would you end up back safely on Earth? When anyone talks about human beings in space...
Three Chinese astronauts, the first sent to orbit for space station construction, completed their three-month mission and returned to Earth safely on Friday. They spent 90 days at the Tianhe module on China’s space station...
Some of the earliest astronomers in recorded history proposed that we live in a geocentric universe in which Earth lies at the center of everything. According to them, the sun rotated around us, which caused sunrises and sunsets...
China’s Chang’e 5 lander touched down on the moon and collected the first lunar samples. It’s more than 40 years since the American Apollo and Soviet Luna missions brought their samples home. The...
Humanity is set on the idea of visiting Mars in person, but there’s the pesky problem of hazardous radiation during long-duration spaceflights to get there. Scientists have raised concerns about brain damage...