The American National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Psyche mission took off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Friday. The goal of the mission is to explore the distant, metal-rich planet of the same name, which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket with a probe on board lifted off from Kennedy … Read more
CNN Indonesia Friday, 06 Oct 2023 20:30 IWST The Indian space probe, Aditya-L1, will soon head to the Sun to monitor the center of our solar system. (Photo: Twitter screenshot @isro) Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — Indian space probe, Aditya-L1, has reportedly passed a crucial stage in its journey to escape the “reaching sphere of Earth’s … Read more
CNN Indonesia Monday, 25 Sep 2023 06:01 IWST The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully sent asteroid samples to Earth via capsule. (NASA) Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — After traveling billions of km with a space probe OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) NASArock and dust samples from the Asteroid Bennu successfully reached Earth. … Read more
CNN Indonesia Tuesday, 19 Sep 2023 18:05 IWST NASA spacecraft penetrates solar storm. (parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu) Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — The US Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Parker Solar Probe (NASA) became the first spacecraft to successfully penetrate Sun storm and researching coronal mass ejections (CME). The spacecraft, which launched in August 2018, was exposed to CME for … Read more
BepiColumbo, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), recently approached the surface of Mercury, coming within just 236 kilometers of the planet. The mission, which consists of three satellites – the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MIO) – … Read more
Dramatic rings glowing around a blue-white ball – that’s how one could describe the image released on Thursday taken by the James Webb Space Telescope that captures Uranus. This is one of the few images of the planet that shows even the faintest of the rings, and it is also the clearest image of them … Read more