2025 Will Be an Exciting Year for Space Missions
Updated: 2024-12-31 14:00:00
From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025
New Image Revealed by NASA of their New Martian Helicopter.
Updated: 2024-12-30 01:10:42
. Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Rendering of Mars Helicopter Credit NASA JPL-Caltech Posted on December 29, 2024 December 29, 2024 by Mark Thompson New Image Revealed by NASA of their New Martian . Helicopter Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly on another world in the first half of 2021. It explored the Martian terrain from above proving that powered air flight was a very efficient way to move around alien worlds . Now NASA have released a computer rendering of their next design , the Mars Chopper  Ingenuity was a small helicopter , or rather more a drone , that was carried to Mars on board the Perseverance rover mission in 2020. It was designed as a technology demonstration to prove that poweredNASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes its Record-Breaking Closest Approach to the Sun
Updated: 2024-12-29 19:17:43
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in An artist's concept showing Parker Solar Probe . Credits : NASA APL Posted on December 29, 2024 December 29, 2024 by Matt Williams NASAâ s Parker Solar Probe Makes its Record-Breaking Closest Approach to the Sun In August 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe PSP began its long journey to study the Sun’s outer corona . After several gravity-assist maneuvers with Venus , the probe broke Helios 2 s distance record and became the closest object to the Sun on October 29th , 2018 Since then , the Parker probe’s highly elliptical orbit has allowed it to pass through the Sun’s corona several times touch the Sun” On December 24th , 2024 NASA confirmed that their probe made its closestScientists await signal from spacecraft after historic close encounter with the sun
Updated: 2024-12-25 22:52:48To get so close, the Parker Solar Probe had to withstand the sun's extreme heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.A roundup of what happened in space in 2024
Updated: 2024-12-25 09:42:38It's been yet another exciting and eventful year in space -- from minor malfunctions to eclipses.Another Delay Postpones NASA Astronauts' Return to Earth in 2025
Updated: 2024-12-20 19:00:00Learn how NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore got stuck on the International Space Station, and why their return to Earth has been delayed again.