The Hera mission will follow NASA's DART asteroid-deflecting spacecraft to the binary space rock Didymos and detail the aftermath of DART's collision with the smaller of the two asteroids.
Space News & Blog Articles
Tune into the SpaceZE News Network to stay updated on industry news from around the world.
There’s So Much Pressure at the Earth’s Core, it Makes Iron Behave in a Strange Way
It’s one of nature’s topsy-turvy tricks that the deep interior of the Earth is as hot as the Sun’s surface. The sphere of iron that resides there is also under extreme pressure: about 360 million times more pressure than we experience on the Earth’s surface. But how can scientists study what happens to the iron at the center of the Earth when it’s largely unobservable?
Watch Ingenuity Mars helicopter soar in amazing new videos from Perseverance rover
Stunning new videos show NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity soaring through the Red Planet skies like never before.
Save a whopping 40% the Fortnite Rocket Launcher in this early Black Friday deal from Best Buy
Blast away the competition with an epic early Black Friday Nerf deal on the Nerf Fortnite rocket launcher from best buy, now 40% off.
An Absolutely Bonkers Plan to Give Mars an Artificial Magnetosphere
Terraforming Mars is one of the great dreams of humanity. Mars has a lot going for it. Its day is about the same length as Earth’s, it has plenty of frozen water just under its surface, and it likely could be given a reasonably breathable atmosphere in time. But one of the things it lacks is a strong magnetic field. So if we want to make Mars a second Earth, we’ll have to give it an artificial one.
Vanguard Alta Pro 263AB tripod review
The Vanguard Alta Pro 263AB tripod is a solid, sturdy and flexible option for mirrorless and DSLR cameras.
3 Legged Thing PUNKS Brian Tripod review
Punk by name, punk by nature, the 3 Legged Thing PUNKS Brian Tripod is a showstopper among travel tripods.
Telescopes on Amazon: Best Black Friday deals
There are heaps of telescopes on Amazon, many of which are discounted as part of the Black Friday sales.
Rocky roads through Lanzarote
Image:
Take away the clouds, bulk up the humans with suits and add an orange-red filter and this could be an image from a future mission to Mars.
IMM21: inflight call with ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer
Video: 00:14:30
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer talks to ESA ministers in charge of space from the International Space Station.
Getting Started in Deep-Sky Astrophotography
Shopping for gear to get started in astrophotography? Here's some sage advice before you max out all your credit cards.
Marvel streaming guide: Where to watch the Marvel movies and TV shows online
Looking to indulge in some Marvel magic? Here’s our ultimate Marvel streaming guide on where to watch all the movies and TV shows from the MCU.
Nearly total Beaver Moon lunar eclipse, longest of its kind in 580 years, wows stargazers
Skywatchers across North America and beyond got a first class view of the longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years, though for some, weather ruined the experience.
Meet LICIACube, the small but mighty spacecraft that will watch NASA's epic DART asteroid crash
The small LICIACube spacecraft will watch its robotic colleague, NASA's DART mission, smash into an asteroid and sending the footage back to Earth.
Space station astronauts resume normal operations after Russian anti-satellite missile test
Astronauts at the International Space Station have returned to normal operations after a couple of adrenalin-filled days following a Russian anti-satellite missile test that threw an out-of-control cloud of space debris into the station's orbit.
Beaver Moon lunar eclipse 2021: Amazing photos of the longest partial moon eclipse in 580 years
See photos of the Beaver Moon lunar eclipse of Nov. 18-19, 2021 here as seen by skywatchers and Space.com readers around the world.
Canon 10x42L IS WP binoculars review
The Canon 10x42L IS WP are an outstanding choice for super-steady stargazing thanks to their fabulous image stabilization, waterproof design and large objective lenses.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 19 – 27
Orion now rises in the east around 8 p.m. Will Betelgeuse or Rigel be the first of his bright stars to come up? That depends on your latitude; Los Angeles and Atlanta are balance points. The Pleiades and Aldebaran watch this scene from high above.
Earth from Space: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
