Elisha Sauers
Space Reporter at Mashable
#Space reporter @Mashable | Formerly @virginianpilot @capgaznews | ‘24, ‘23 National Headliner Awards | [email protected] 443-684-2489.
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3 weeks ago |
mashable.com | Elisha Sauers
An asteroid discovered late last year is expected to be in our neck of space in 2032. The good news? It's not coming for Earth. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer visible, but NASA squeezed in one last glimpse of it with the James Webb Space Telescope in May before it slipped out of sight. The new set of observations has helped sharpen predictions about where the space rock is headed.
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3 weeks ago |
mashable.com | Elisha Sauers
The Ring Nebula is a well-known space icon shaped like a doughnut about 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. But astronomers think it's been holding a secret that only the penetrating gaze of the James Webb Space Telescope, a joint project of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, could reveal. Using Webb's infrared-sensing MIRI instrument, scientists got a clear sightline to the small but scorching star at its center.
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3 weeks ago |
mashable.com | Elisha Sauers
A private space firm from Japan likely did not stick its moon landing on Thursday, which would make this the second failed attempt to get to the lunar surface for the company in the past two years. The mission, dubbed Hakuto-R by the company ispace, tried to touch down around 3:15 p.m. ET on June 5 after a long 4.5-month meandering journey to save on fuel. But the team lost communication with the lander — a foreboding sign that something probably went wrong.
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3 weeks ago |
mashable.com | Elisha Sauers
A private Japanese space company will try to land an uncrewed robotic spacecraft on the moon and deliver a rover to its surface today, after a failed attempt in April 2023. Landing on the moon remains onerous — demonstrated by numerous flopped landings. Though Firefly Aerospace succeeded in landing in March, another U.S. company, Intuitive Machines, didn't fare as well, ending up on its side in a crater less than a week later.
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3 weeks ago |
mashable.com | Elisha Sauers
Astronomers have believed for decades that the Milky Way is on a collision course with our nearest big neighbor, Andromeda. They seemed all but certain the two galaxies were destined to smash in about 4 to 5 billion years, combining into one colossal galaxy in space. In that scenario, the merger would trigger a riot of star births and deaths and maybe even thrust the sun into a different orbit. We were told all this was inevitable.
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Question for @elonmusk: When you have five @Tesla Optimus robots on a steel beam, are they Optimuses or Optimi? Here’s my story on key takeaways from his @spacex update on the plan for Mars. https://t.co/i9hBaFT2ko
Yes, @spacex's Starship blew up again, but the test wasn't a complete failure. In fact, something really key to their success went right: https://t.co/oNX22CAkDY
NASA just performed a 'miracle save' for its farthest spacecraft https://t.co/MwPwzSqkiz
