5 days ago · CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four space tourists who orbited the north and south poles returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Pacific to end their privately funded polar tour.. Bitcoin investor Chun Wang chartered a SpaceX flight for himself and three others in a Dragon capsule that was outfitted with a domed window that provided 360-degree views of the polar caps and everything ...

Pelion is a large asteroid with an orbit between Jupiter and Neptune. NASA JPL has not classified Pelion as potentially hazardous because its orbit does not bring it close to Earth. Pelion orbits the sun every 32,800 days (89.80 years), coming as close as 17.39 AU and reaching as far as 22.75 AU from the sun.

NASA’s Solar System Interactive (also known as the Orrery) is a live look at the solar system, its planets, moons, comets, and asteroids, as well as the real-time locations of dozens of NASA missions.

Mar 10, 2012 · The shallow cone of white-hot ejecta soon spread into a vast disc between the worlds, irradiating the surface of Ossa and Pelion so that soon no life could persist on either. Finally the last remnants of the formerly spherical crust were thrown far into space above the merged surface of the worlds.

5 days ago · Four space tourists completed a privately funded mission, orbiting the north and south poles before returning to Earth, marking the first human spaceflight to circle the globe above the poles. The ...

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5 days ago · Besides documenting the poles from 270 miles (430 kilometers) up, Wang and his crew took the first medical X-rays in space as part of a test and conducted two dozen other science experiments.

Nov 21, 2023 · On Nov. 14, NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an instrument that launched with the Psyche spacecraft, which is currently more than 10 million miles (16 million kilometers) from Earth and...

Jun 25, 2024 · NASA's mission to an asteroid worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 ($10 quintillion) is well on its way, using ion thrusters to get there by the end of the decade. The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is...

Sep 18, 2024 · Porphyrion was the greatest of the giants alongside Alcyoneus, who lends his name to the next largest set of black hole jets, which were discovered in 2022 by the same team of scientists and span...