• NASA astronauts stranded in orbit set for long-awaited return after nine months on ISS

    ByRishika Yadav

    After an extended mission due to technical issues with their return spacecraft, two NASA astronauts are set to return to Earth aboard SpaceX’s Crew-9 capsule. Originally scheduled for a short stay, Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore have spent nearly nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after their Boeing Starliner capsule encountered propulsion problems. With the successful arrival of Crew-10 on March 16, 2025, the long-delayed crew rotation is now underway, paving the way for their return no earlier than March 20, 2025.

  • Hayabusa2 spacecraft deploys its last rover to asteroid Ryugu

    ByJulie Celestial

    JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has released MINERVA-II2 with its last rover toward asteroid Ryugu on Thursday, October 3, 2019. The rover is expected to land by October 8 as part of its final mission before returning to Earth, according to Japan Aerospace…

  • Ion-powered Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrives at asteroid Ryugu

    ByTeo Blašković

    The unmanned Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 has arrived at asteroid Ryugu, currently located 284 million km (176 million miles) away from Earth. The spacecraft will attempt 3 brief touch-and-go landings over the next 18 months to collect samples and return them to…

  • New era of global weather observing and climate science

    ByTeo Blašković

    International, next-generation, unifying satellite observatory for global snow and rain measurements – Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory – was successfully launched yesterday from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan marking the beginning of a

  • Deadly Rainfall Over Thailand

    ByChillymanjaro

    Data from NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite was used to create a rainfall map of the severe rains that fell in Thailand recently. More than 20 people have been killed in southern Thailand over the past week due to flooding and mudslides