Articles for tag: asteroids, Astronomy, astrophysics, Comets, Interstellar Objects, NASA, Space exploration

Comet 3I ATLAS

Mysterious Object From Deep Space Heads Toward Earth’s Neighborhood

Suhail Ahmed

The extraordinary features of a rapidly moving celestial object are scintillating astronomers’ interest. Upon initial discovery, A11pl3Z was given a name but recently NASA has confirmed it as 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object out of four comets or asteroids discovered. Unlike the comets or asteroids which are bound to the sun’s asteroid belt and viewable ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA Finds Japan’s Crashed Moon Lander — Debris Scattered Across Lunar Surface

Jan Otte

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) took the first pictures of Japan’s doomed Resilience moon lander. The pictures show a grim scene: broken pieces of the lander spread out across the moon’s surface. The spacecraft, made by the Tokyo-based company ispace, was supposed to make a historic soft landing on June 5, but it didn’t and ...